Don’t get me wrong, making new novels YA-friendly is absolutely a smart move, and i can’t argue the business sense of doing so. It is exactly wat they should be doing, I just don’t know how much coming-of-age I can take without my brain rebelling and trying to escape through my nostrils.
Look, it’s not like I want Fifty Shades of Canopus or anything. I just tend to enjoy books more along the George R.R. Martin spectrum than the J.K. Rowling zone these days. Every once in a while, a hero needs to die in a way that isn’t fair because political scheming ate them alive. Otherwise, it just isn’t BattleTech!