The hardest thing for me is not that the characters are too old like many posters have been saying (18-20s), but that they hover in that weird in-between spot of the Upper MG and Lower YA (about 14-15 years).
If it's YA, I fear that I'm kind of screwed because I don't read most (mainstream) YA.
I read more MG and Upper MG (and, once in a while, Adult Romances) at the most. I prefer to read stuff like children's classics,
Ella Enchanted,
Princess Academy, Wendy Mass books,
Emily Windsnap series, The
Wide-Awake Princess series, some Mike Lupica books,
Harry Potter series, etc.
I think the closest to YA-range I can think of off the top of my head would be perhaps the LGBT books, like
Boy Meets Boy,
Aristotle and Dante Discover Secrets to Universe, and
One Man Guy.
And the later books of Harry Potter, I think?
And maybe Tamora Pierce's stuff? Are those YA or MG? Maybe Lower YA? (All of her female knight series; "Circle" series; etc).
Maybe
Witch of Blackbird Pond and
Outsiders. Those are YA, right? I enjoyed those two.
I don't know. But I'm not really interested in most of the (mainstream, particularly dystopian or vampire/werewolf or assassin fantasy) teen books that are popular at the moment, for some reason.
Unless it's manga or light novels, I tend to avoid most teen books. The manga and light novels I have read are definitely labeled as "Teens", and one of them, "13 and Up".
I just fear that my reading choices may not match up to my novel's reading range, and one would think to read in their genre/market, yes?
I think it's YA because the POV character is 14-going-onto-15. (She will be celebrating her quincenera , which is the 15th birthday coming of age party).