Adelaide Jensen

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I guess that's also maybe the difference between YA and adult is that the focus is not as much on the romance because it's more about the friendships almost and like those can be just as beautiful and about that love.

I've just had that thought.

Hello and a very warm welcome to Lit Witches, the podcast for fantasy readers, writers and all things in between.

I'm your host, Adelaide Jensen, and today I'm joined by Adiba Omar and Izzy Wero.

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Welcome, Adiba, for your first time.

Well, today on the roundtable, we will be discussing Shadow Reaper by Lynette Noni and the YA fantasy genre.

Now, as always, let's start with an icebreaker question.

Which YA couple did you ship hardest when you were a teenager?

I mean, you can if that was where your teen heart was like.

Even when you still thought they were siblings?

uninvited from the podcast get out wow I know new theme on this podcast uh Edward versus Jacob now fight I was trying to think back to like and I don't actually remember how old I was when I read this the first time but I do remember it was the first time I had like the problematic love interest obsession which is when I read Shadow and Bone and I was trying to tell all my friends I was like I'm sorry but she absolutely should be with Darkling and they were like that is not what the point of these books is I'm like I don't care

I ship it hard and in my heart that is where she went.

It's my heart and my truth.

The villain should have been the love interest.

And then here we are, you know, in reading Romanticie every day and we're like, great, I get to have this all the time.

Amazing.