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Thank you so much for the thoughtful answer! I appreciate your candor about the #ownvoices topic. As a white woman myself, I certainly can't speak to the rep either, but I never felt uncomfortable or put off by your portrayal of January. (And have people been labeling this as YA? I never got that sense from it!)
Oh holy sh1t. (Can we swear on GR? Better be safe than sorry. *edits creatively*) I can't believe that I didn't see your reply until now and frankly, I am dead embarrassed. I drop off the face of the earth on a semi-regular basis and to come back and discover, ahem, my RECENTLY ANNOUNCED NEW FAVORITE AUTHOR (really you can check my FB) has replied to me, leaves me somewhere between Cringe and Utter Devastation.
When I leave "unfinished with book" reviews, I have a note in my calendar to return and update upon completion of the book. I can't believe I didn't do that here. I loved this book. I mean in a "actually get a copy to own as opposed to stealing, er, returning to the library under duress. So dang howdy, I will be rewriting this along with my great love for "Once & Future Wiches" and "Starling House." (I spent an entire 30 minutes with a friend of mine talking about the latter in terms of the psychology of generational trauma and manifesting pain. We might just get her to read a fantasy novel. Might.)
I am not into YA either, but am a sucker for older urban fantasy such as Charl's deLint, Gael Baudino, and certain specific titles (often written by authors who are doing one-offs such as Feist's "Faerie Tale") A lot of modern works under the title "UF" seem to mean romance novels wrapped in fairies (and there is nothing wrong with that!) but I like to have meat with my tea sometimes, not just toast with jam.
So to stretch the dietary analogy further than I likely should, I have been deliciously consuming your work and am off for more this weekend. So please forgive a reader who moved too quickly to asking questions that were to be revealed in time.
I can’t decide if a lack of ability to include emojis is helpful here. I can assure you there would be at least one facepalm, a bevy of laughs (but the parentheses will always be present whenever I write letters because I would wither and die. Hyperbolically speaking.)
Cheers, love your work, *trailing off with embarrassed mumbling*
A.
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Thank you so much for the thoughtful answer! I appreciate your candor about the #ownvoices topic. As a white woman myself, I certainly can't speak to the rep either, but I never felt uncomfortable or put off by your portrayal of January. (And have people been labeling this as YA? I never got that sense from it!)
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Oh holy sh1t. (Can we swear on GR? Better be safe than sorry. *edits creatively*) I can't believe that I didn't see your reply until now and frankly, I am dead embarrassed. I drop off the face of the earth on a semi-regular basis and to come back and discover, ahem, my RECENTLY ANNOUNCED NEW FAVORITE AUTHOR (really you can check my FB) has replied to me, leaves me somewhere between Cringe and Utter Devastation. When I leave "unfinished with book" reviews, I have a note in my calendar to return and update upon completion of the book. I can't believe I didn't do that here. I loved this book. I mean in a "actually get a copy to own as opposed to stealing, er, returning to the library under duress. So dang howdy, I will be rewriting this along with my great love for "Once & Future Wiches" and "Starling House." (I spent an entire 30 minutes with a friend of mine talking about the latter in terms of the psychology of generational trauma and manifesting pain. We might just get her to read a fantasy novel. Might.)
I am not into YA either, but am a sucker for older urban fantasy such as Charl's deLint, Gael Baudino, and certain specific titles (often written by authors who are doing one-offs such as Feist's "Faerie Tale") A lot of modern works under the title "UF" seem to mean romance novels wrapped in fairies (and there is nothing wrong with that!) but I like to have meat with my tea sometimes, not just toast with jam.
So to stretch the dietary analogy further than I likely should, I have been deliciously consuming your work and am off for more this weekend. So please forgive a reader who moved too quickly to asking questions that were to be revealed in time.
I can’t decide if a lack of ability to include emojis is helpful here. I can assure you there would be at least one facepalm, a bevy of laughs (but the parentheses will always be present whenever I write letters because I would wither and die. Hyperbolically speaking.)
Cheers, love your work, *trailing off with embarrassed mumbling*
A.
