Thing is I started a book of the month club for my readers on Medium in 2022. Recently I decided to split it among two groups because the majority of the books I'd reviewed were YA Novels and I wanted to give 'grown-ups' a chance.

I am a bigger reader than I am a TV watcher and for a very long time I have been drawn to young adult novels more than grownup ones. The best YA writers can tell stories at a level that are just as gifted and in some cases darker than the ones ostensibly for adults. That has been the kind that draws me in and that I often find more interesting then the traditional suspense novel or even adult books that cover essentially the same ground.

I did read the entire Summer I Turned Pretty series as well as To All The Boys I Loved Before. (I am as much a closet romantic as one who believes in darker novels. It balances me out quite nicely.) However I have yet to watch either of the streaming series based on them, mainly because so many shows so little time.

Perhaps the reasons I like YA novels as much as 'adult' novels is because when they are in darkness, they take on different measures. If the expereince is tragic - and I've read and appreciated some that are - then it resonates more because a life has been obliterated in a way that it isn't for an adult. Conversely, if the protagonist survives they can find a way to move past it the way that say, a survivor of a Stephen King or James Patterson book probably never will.

I'm not saying this ONLY to plug my columns. By this point in my career at Medium enough people have found and like my writing that there is a chance you might find it on your own. (I clearly share enough of your interests in TV that you might do it on your own.) I say it more because my columns often deal with art that falls under the radar and books like these should not.