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Pt5 and MCs are generally very nonjudgmental. Her books don’t immediately take the stance that risky behaviors are a cry for help that the character needs to reform and recover from, Coping mechanisms are viewed through a pretty neutral lense and you don’t feel as if they’re being either glorified, worshipped, or dismissed.

Pt4 Also, she deals with edgy subjects really tastefully. So often when these things are incorporated into books, I’m left rolling my eyes, feeling like it was written by a fourteen-year-old whose really very impressed by those things, even if they write them as negative coping mechanisms or something. Avice has a lot of that in her books, but again, they just feel like part of the character’s lives…

Pt3 Tastefully and realistically done. Sometimes terrible things have happened to her characters, and those things affect their lives, and they deal with the fall out and try to move forward, that’s it. They develop the characters without making it into a play on anyone’s emotions. You’re left to feel how you’re going to feel about it.

Pt2 I also genuinely love how Avice handles both character trauma, and subjects generally considered to be edgy or taboo like substance use and weird sex. Trauma is treated as if it’s just a part of these characters lives. She neither trauma dumps all over you, or drops cryptic clues the whole time in order to turn it into some melodramatic reveal to elicit sympathy from either the reader or another character