Adelaide Jensen

But what I loved the most about the Prison Healer experience was that you had that joint satisfaction of like kind of knowing some things were going to happen.

But she still managed to surprise me with some of them.

And she really plays into that, I think, like the reader expectations.

And I think that's maybe part of what has led to her success is that she does that so skillfully and so like intentionally.

Yeah, she sets you up with that from Prison Healer, like right from the beginning, like the idea that as people are getting to know each other and, you know, there's this big secret between them and when that's going to come out and what kind of conflict that's going to make and sort of the unknown that comes from that.

I just didn't really need to.

I love the Prison Healer.

I just love the Prison Healer.

Let's get the Prison Healer out there.

Let's all sit here and read.

We'll see what happens.

Putting that on the phone.

The other trope, which, and I know Lynette herself has talked about this a lot, that she loves putting in her books is found family, which has been, like, sort of a main theme across every series that she's written.

There's always dead parents.

Like, our main character has to have some sort of, like... Trauma.

Trauma, but also, like, level of you are now able to go off on these adventures and things that if you had, like, sort of...

caring sort of like attention having parents they probably wouldn't let you go off and do whatever it is like dangerous thing that you're going to do whatever quest you're going to go on so there has to be some level of like authority in and of themselves that they've had to grow up really young and like go and make these choices for themselves and I wonder if that's how they always end up finding new family because I need that freedom and it's the whole like family is who you choose which I love.

Yeah, it's such a great, I mean, it's a trope for all fantasy, but especially in YA, I think also because it's such a, if we're thinking about like the writing for teens as well, it's a time when you find more about yourself and you do find your friends.

It's actually quite nice.

Please.