Yes I totally agree with you.Drakka Reader wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 14:04 The book simply seemed a little too dark and sexual to be aimed at young adults. I like the idea of dark themes and the like, but those themes felt wrong in a young adult book.
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Ya valid point. But it can't be to that extent as Adam is here.
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Impressionable young minds should really not read this stuff.supraja_prasad wrote: ↑27 Feb 2020, 22:35 I feel this is more suited to be an adult novel. There is so much darkness and themes that I would not have wanted to read as a young adult. Heck, Adam's relationship with his mom, Terry and how she met her end, and the way Adam seems to obsess over Clary with the exception of that one friend who he is okay with, is just plain sad. Imagine if young, growing read this at an impressionable age and think that this is okay... That's a no, right there. And that's the answer is it not?
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Yes, it would have made the story more interesting.Nickolas Farmakis wrote: ↑28 Feb 2020, 05:37 I agree with you. I think that the book would have been better as an adult book, as that would have given the author more freedom to write.
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Yes, it was quite unexpected.Nickolas Farmakis wrote: ↑28 Feb 2020, 05:38 I also think that the Young Adult genre does not fit in well with the plot of the novel and the events described in the book.
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I definitely agree with you that the author could have explored a lot more if not constrained by the genre. Adam would have had a lot more potential to validate the "monster" feeling before he found redemption with Carly. It would have been good to add more conflict with Carly's parents, too. I think if Dauma had found out about Adam's past, she would have had some very choice words for her daughter.Nym182 wrote: ↑06 Feb 2020, 15:28 One of the thoughts that kept occurring to me as I read this book was that Opaque would have been much better if it was not a YA book.
I dig gritty and dark books like anything by Bret Easton Elis or Stephen King, so when it turned as dark as it did I had mixed feelings. I enjoyed it but did not think that it fit in a YA book.
Between the darkness of Adam and the sexual undertones, I really think that Leigh-Reign would have made a much better book if she had leaned into the darkness. It would have made the strange sexual parts of the book less strange, especially if they were expanded on. I didn't like the scenes where Adam watches Carly wash or Carly's admittance that she wore socks to prevent stirring up Kane's foot fetish (what high schooler has a foot fetish?) in the context of a story about high schoolers.
Do you think writing it a YA book held the author back? Would you have preferred to read this as a sci-fi thriller?