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you read lord if the rings before u were 8?-
I did! I liked them books chonky. I was in the adult fantasy section in middle school. My mum would take me to the library, and we’d get 30 books and we’d both read the same ones.
I grew up reading. My mother was a librarian.
For reference, my younger brother didn’t really hit chapter books until he was 12. I was a *reader,* I don’t consider my experience typical, but that is why I weighed in. Reading levels are all over the map.
I’d also like to point out that though I read adult novels early, I really enjoyed YA into my teens. I didn’t really grow out of them into my 20s. My mother is in her 70s, and she reads a large percentage of YA, far more than I do now. I prefer more complicated worlds than YA can deliver as an adult.
But Priory wasn’t a very complicated world, to be wholly transparent. It’s Chonky, but it’s not dense. Any literate middle schooler who isn’t afraid of a books heft would do just fine.
The question is would I recommend it to a 12 year old? No, not really. But only because there are far better fantasy books out there.
What I WILL give it, is It’s good for sapphic rep. I would have enjoyed it as a 12 year old because I never saw myself in fantasy. Fantasy was always suffocatingly heteronormative.
It might be one of the mildest sapphic fantasies. Too often you see a lot of sex when main characters are gay, which discomfits me to give to a 12 year old. We need to stop conflating orientation with sex, and see more Sam and Frodo but gently gay. I demand gently, yearningly gay!
All gay is yearning when you are 12!
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I did! I liked them books chonky. I was in the adult fantasy section in middle school. My mum would take me to the library, and we’d get 30 books and we’d both read the same ones.
I grew up reading. My mother was a librarian.For reference, my younger brother didn’t really hit chapter books until he was 12. I was a *reader,* I don’t consider my experience typical, but that is why I weighed in. Reading levels are all over the map.
I’d also like to point out that though I read adult novels early, I really enjoyed YA into my teens. I didn’t really grow out of them into my 20s. My mother is in her 70s, and she reads a large percentage of YA, far more than I do now. I prefer more complicated worlds than YA can deliver as an adult.
But Priory wasn’t a very complicated world, to be wholly transparent. It’s Chonky, but it’s not dense. Any literate middle schooler who isn’t afraid of a books heft would do just fine.
The question is would I recommend it to a 12 year old? No, not really. But only because there are far better fantasy books out there.
What I WILL give it, is It’s good for sapphic rep. I would have enjoyed it as a 12 year old because I never saw myself in fantasy. Fantasy was always suffocatingly heteronormative.It might be one of the mildest sapphic fantasies. Too often you see a lot of sex when main characters are gay, which discomfits me to give to a 12 year old. We need to stop conflating orientation with sex, and see more Sam and Frodo but gently gay. I demand gently, yearningly gay!
All gay is yearning when you are 12!
