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"It's a good thing I'm gay, so no one expects me to be good at math" (41).

Oh fucking boy.

"She's not sure there's a version of her own story that could ever include desire or pleasure" (183).

I would much rather be reading a book that gives Lavinia, toungeless and valueless, a voice rather than Juliet who speaks the entire play. Most of these "feminist takes" are rather trite and base-level. If you want to give voice to the voiceless, then choose Lavinia, choose Desdemona.

Lavinia, girl, they did you so dirty.

If Juliet spoke the entire play, is she really silenced?

"To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed" (147).

Why is this YA Fantasy book published in 2001 by a teenager infinitely better than the same genre published in 2024 by grown adults?

"She was so tired of looking for dead ends"

Miss Thing, you have looked for both the missing things for about one, ten page chapter. What are you even talking about.