Kyri Freeman
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Not a question, just a quick note. My library shelved this as YA. I'm a third of the way through, and it's not YA, so in case any other institutions classified it wrongly and in case any potential readers were put off by that, don't be. I wonder why they do that? This isn't the first time I've seen it.
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Jen
Sci-fi and Fantasy books written by women are often classified as young adult because of ingrained disrespect to women authors and/or centers centering women.
Adam Bogert
This is indeed bizarre. The language is pretty dense. While the other answerer here notes that age of protagonists can be a marker, I'd hardly call a 26-year-old "semi-adolescent."
Pep
It seems to me that all SF featuring semi-adolescent female protagonists (even those written by blokes) are categorised as YA, which seems entirely reasonable.
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