Hello all! So, I recently lost like 65% of the novel I was working on. (Horrible, I know.) So I'm now working on another called Immortal Darkness. My best friend and I are currently arguing over whether it should be classed as YA or as an adult book. I had intended it to be a YA series but now I'm not so sure. Here's the summary I have for it:
Styxx Lancaster is a Mage. Among the most powerful of his kind, Styxx has lived alone for centuries since the death of his lover in 1601. A rich man, Styxx spends most of his time in the palace he built as a young immortal. He is a loner and rarely bothers to leave his palace. On a rare excursion into the mainland, Styxx meets Ryder Sullivan. Ryder is a young but powerful Mage who has been kicked out of his home because he was more powerful than his twin brother Ryan. Styxx, feeling an unusual pull to the young Mage, decides to take him under his wing. He allows him to move with him to the Palace and teaches him about Magick. He even teaches Ryder the Ancient Arts, a brand of Magick that has gone out of practice. The Ancient Arts, while hardly anyone knows about them, are extremely useful in every aspect of life. On the third day that Ryder is at the Palace, his mother shows up. His mother, Helena Sullivan, is Head of the Eternal Order. The Eternal Order is the Highest Order in the Magickal Kingdom. The only person with more power than the Eternal Order is Styxx himself. Helena comes to plead with Styxx to teach her older son, Ryan. She begs him to throw Ryder out, saying, "He's nowhere near as important as his brother." Styxx refuses and announces that Ryder is his apprentice. This will change the Magickal World. Styxx Lancaster, who is the most powerful Mage in existence, has not taken an apprentice in nearly five hundred years. And yet Ryder, the younger son of a powerful family, has been chosen. It upsets a lot of important people and soon a war is on their hands. The Magickal World is divided. Half of them side with the Sullvan family while the other half of them side with Styxx and Ryder. Amidst continuing to teach his apprentice and the war, Ryder and Styxx fall in love. This too upsets the Sullivan family. Helena announces that Ryder has been formally disowned and Styxx, in retaliation, announces that Ryder is a member of the Lancaster Clan. This, like his other actions, is something that has not happened in nearly a thousand years. After this, the war intensifies.
It seems to me that it's more YA than adult but she's got me confused now. What do you guys think?
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