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A Review by Grumpy Jenny: Huntress, Malinda Lo

I am of two minds about Huntress. From the standpoint of representation and messages, I am all about it. The cover, as you can see, features a woman who is clearly Asian and clearly fierce (cause the protagonist is both of those things!); and the central romance of the story is between two women. Nonwhite queer protagonists are woefully underrepresented in YA (and in fiction generally — cf. #weneeddiversebooks, which damn, we really do). It was lovely and refreshing to read a book like this where not the protagonist a queer person of color, and the arc of her story…

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