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I’ll admit I was a little worried how Ifueko would deal with this aspect of the plot. I’ll never distrust her again though, because of course she did it perfectly.

I shouldn’t care this much about side characters and yet, here we are

“I once promised that I would never ask you to be less than who you are. But if you set yourself on fire to warm a frozen world, I will not stand by and watch you burn.”
“Then don’t watch. Stand with me.”
“I can’t …”
“Then stand back …”
LIKE COME ON! BE SO FOR REAL RN! Is that not the best exchange ever written?? Idk man but it’s up there

Ifueko’s dialogue is so punchy and just perfect. She takes such complex subject matter and explores it so wholely. Every character’s motivations make sense, even if you disagree with them.
It might be too much for a YA book though. You have to really process these moral conflicts the characters are having to find where you stand which could be quite challenging for younger teens outside of a classroom setting.

“Why am I always so different?”
“For what it’s worth … you have always been my kind of different.”
“That’s only because you’re as strange as I am.”
I’ll just see myself out now :,)