When it comes to reading young adult literature, a big complaint is that readers who are out of their teenage years may not connect to the character and the stories as much. While I read and love a lot of YA, this concern does, at times, affect what I like to read; as much as I want to create an equal balance between YA and adult fiction, I can go weeks reading only YA followed by weeks of just adult novels. This quest for a stability in my reading habits has me wondering: if I read more adult fiction to get away from the tropes and similarities of YA, why am I drawn to books that feature younger and younger main characters, despite their classification as "adult?"