Malinda Lo

Welcome back to my two-part discussion of heteronormativity, fantasy, and Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue! Part 1 is here in case you need to refresh your memory. Picking up right from where I left off yesterday, I was about to tackle this question: Is it believable to have same-sex relationships in a medieval-esque fantasy world? SPOILER WARNING: ... More→

Earlier this week I read a post discussing Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue on School Library Journal‘s blog Someday My Printz Will Come, which is devoted to analyzing YA books that librarians think may or may not be contenders for the Printz Award. This post went up on Oct. 29, so I’m a bit behind, but I ... More→

Graceling is set in a world in which some people are graced with gifts. They might be as pleasurable as the grace of fine cooking, or as deadly as the one that Katsa has; she is graced with the ability to kill. Because of this grace, she becomes the tool of a corrupt king who ... More→