3.84 avg rating — 44,087 ratings

"This is a dark fantasy involving insane amounts of violence and some pretty graphic sex scenes."

3.60 avg rating — 1,235 ratings

"This is a twisted, goth, surrealist fantasy with a whole lot of blood and dismemberment in it and I have a hard time believing that the author wrote it for a young adult audience."

3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings

"This is about children being rounded up and forced to breed, be eaten, or turned into something horrid. It's rather disturbing and definitely not geared towards a younger audience."

4.18 avg rating — 150,194 ratings

"Novik devotes a lot more ink to business and finance practices in this novel than someone who is writing for teenagers would. Not that this is inappropriate for teenagers in any way, but it's clearly not written in a voice meant to appeal to them."

4.01 avg rating — 166,098 ratings

"The author explicitly states that this is not a Young Adult novel. Quoting her: "THIS BOOK IS NOT YA! I adore YA, and this book definitely has some crossover appeal--there's nothing R-rated in it--but it was written for adult readers.""

3.88 avg rating — 77,025 ratings

"The author explicitly states that this is not a Young Adult novel. The author said on Goodreads: "...this is an adult novel, as are all my other novels and novellas. SFF by women seems to be automatically classified as YA, which is where the error comes from.""

4.16 avg rating — 469,286 ratings

"This trilogy is about the second Sino-Japanese war followed by the 1911 revolution and is definitely not told from the perspective of or for consumption by young adults"

4.07 avg rating — 21,200 ratings

"I honestly have no clue as to why this is tagged as Young Adult anywhere."