Mark Swenson answers “Is this a YA book?”

Bob White asked this question about The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1):

Is this a YA book?

Mark Swenson Technically, no...

Many of the themes are similar, though, and the characters start the story as teenagers...

As with most fantasy, it can be hard to te…moreTechnically, no...

Many of the themes are similar, though, and the characters start the story as teenagers...

As with most fantasy, it can be hard to tell the two apart, particularly if the YA fantasy is written well.

This series should be acceptable to both the Adult and Young Adult audiences. It does involve some higher-level philosophical concepts, but through the first book these are only briefly mentioned...

Honestly, even adult American readers have little comprehension of concepts like predestination, so I doubt future novels in the series will delve too deeply into that or other concepts.(less)

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