
One of the books I've recently read that has stuck with me is Fire by Kristin Cashore. This is a companion novel to her first novel, Graceling, which has been a big hit in young adult fiction in general and in the fantasy genre as well. Fire is in many ways a totally different book than Graceling, but it is also another exploration of the idea that a woman could be monstrous. In Graceling, the monstrous woman is a killer; in Fire, she is monstrously beautiful.Malinda Lo was born in China and moved to the United States as a child. She grew up in Colorado and has since lived in Boston,
I found Fire to be quieter than Graceling, but also more...[read on]

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