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Rebecca, let's start here with Fourth Wing.

How did the actual experience of reading it comport with your expectation of what it was going to be like?

Well, I had managed to basically avoid knowing what it was about other than there were dragons and sex.

It was, well, I don't know. So I didn't really have expectations, I guess. I think it was about what I, as far as I did have expectations, I think it was about what I expected. It reads a lot younger than I was expecting. That was one place that was really different. And I have seen a lot of folks online being pedantic about this is not young adult. This is a book

for adults. It just has younger characters. She's 20, right? Right. She's like 20. It's for new adults.

It's in that category. You know, like she's 20. I think this is for folks who have aged out of the

like official cat, like the official age group for young adult readers.

They're over 18.

And it has explicit sex.

But it felt to me like Harry Potter with boning in a lot of ways, which I think is kind of what

I expected.

I had read a lot of summaries of Akitar,

and I think I expected more of the Akitar tropes

that I had heard about to show up here as well,

but I understand those are pretty difficult.

Should we tell the people what it's about?

So the main character, we enter in Media Res, which actually was kind of interesting, where she's on her way to drag in writing school.

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