Meme - Day 8

I can't believe I've kept up with this 8 days without forgetting. I am loving today's question.

8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?

My first love was YA fiction, because it's what I read growing up. It's changed so much since then, and I haven't read a lot of recent YA, so I have no idea what the trends are in the genre anymore. I think a big part of why I stopped reading was the sense that "adults didn't read YA" - but now it seems so common to see adults reading YA books, so I want to get back in it.

Since then, I've really been turned onto suspense and suspense thriller genres. A lot of my favourite authors get filed under mystery at my local bookstore (like Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell etc) but their writing isn't so much mystery to me as suspense and forensic suspense. I read a lot of Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen as well. I prefer the suspense genre because I like the feeling of the chase and the danger the characters are in. A lot of the suspense books also have a romance aspect to them, I suspect because I tend to choose suspense novels written by women. I haven't read a lot of male-written suspense.

I used to write a lot of YA, but since getting involved in fan fiction, I find that my writing has taken a bend toward romance/crime. I don't know if I'd classify it as suspense at this point, but there's a lot of criminal activity framed within a romantic scene. I find it interesting because I've never really been interested in romances, and the only romance I read comes within the confines of a suspense or thriller novel.