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Thank you for the reply! I actually read Book of Boy right before your book and loved it! I also loved The Inquisitors Tale as well as The Passion of Dolssa if you ever read YA fiction. Thank you for the other recommendations! Thank you for sharing your reasoning behind not including magic. The story definitely didn’t need it! Plenty of drama to be had. I think what I especially loved was how you created such a strong yet relatable female character. I love her confidence and bravado but also the fact that she really thinks about her choices and how they impact others. Thanks again!
I know that by not including magic, I'm challenging the market. Every other medieval book I've listed includes magic of some kind, and it's something kids expect. But I'm hoping that I can start a trend in which action adventure and an imaginative story can exist in a world that *could* have been real. Rosemary Sutcliff did this, and I'm trying to soften the hard history (which some kids find too much; that's a big danger of historical fiction) and increase the vivid storytelling of such a method. We'll see if the market likes it! And thanks for your kind words!
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Thank you for the reply! I actually read Book of Boy right before your book and loved it! I also loved The Inquisitors Tale as well as The Passion of Dolssa if you ever read YA fiction. Thank you for the other recommendations! Thank you for sharing your reasoning behind not including magic. The story definitely didn’t need it! Plenty of drama to be had. I think what I especially loved was how you created such a strong yet relatable female character. I love her confidence and bravado but also the fact that she really thinks about her choices and how they impact others. Thanks again!
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I know that by not including magic, I'm challenging the market. Every other medieval book I've listed includes magic of some kind, and it's something kids expect. But I'm hoping that I can start a trend in which action adventure and an imaginative story can exist in a world that *could* have been real. Rosemary Sutcliff did this, and I'm trying to soften the hard history (which some kids find too much; that's a big danger of historical fiction) and increase the vivid storytelling of such a method. We'll see if the market likes it! And thanks for your kind words!
