Adelaide Jensen

How did we feel about Reeve?

Silver eyes.

Well, are you supposed to hate him?

Because it's all very intriguing because you don't know why she hates him so much.

And they also, from the very first moment, have, like, great chemistry but also great banter.

So Reeve is a reaper who from the very beginning is Viri's path, I suppose, to finding the reaper priest who killed her parents.

So this is like the path into their relationship being introduced to us.

And how did you feel about reapers as a part of the story?

Like obviously it's kind of a version of a vampire.

Did you, how did that, was that?

So true.

Yeah, because that explanation of like Reapers are sucking kind of the elixir out of people, like sucking their magic potential almost out of people.

And so only children less than 14 who have not given up their magic to the obelisk first.

I thought that was really clever because it also gives it higher stakes.

One of the things that I love most about Lynette's writing is how she handles tropes, which, of course, is a very important part of YA fantasy.

Which tropes of Shadow Reaper, again, without giving anything away, was your favourite parts of it?

Or I can say widely about Lynette's writing.

What do you love to see in YA?

I mean, if we're talking about Prison Healer, it had everything that I love in a book.

It had like secret princess and secret prince, secret magic, secret like queen, I guess, like every part of that.