Sometimes, I don’t think I would have but growing up I had a sort of pseudo-grandfather friend of the family – Charles L. Fontenay and I have very fond memories of being given his latest novels covered in his coffee stains and smelling like pipe smoke. He wrote young adult sci-fi murder mysteries (The Kipton and Gruff series WHICH IS AMAZING) And I fell in love with them, to the point that now one of my nicknames is Kipton. :D
Without those books, I don’t think I would have appreciated the genre, or even really given it a second thought.
If anyone has a little girl who likes to read, grab those books.