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Apr
This Shadow and Bone article contains some spoilers. Young adult fantasy fiction is one of the most popular literary genres on shelves today, full of a seemingly endless variety of stories about faeries, demons, and the sort of complex magical systems that occasionally need a flow chart to explain. It’s also full of young women, both as central characters and primary readers, all struggling and striving to figure out who they are and how they might find their own magic in the world around them. Yet there’s a certain kind of genre fan that loves to disparage these kinds of…
