Braidee Otto

seeing the kind of the descent back into that mindset that she had at the beginning and how she kind of copes with the trauma of what's happened was really important for me to explore.

I think like so often I've seen traumatic situations happen and then not being able to experience, I suppose, the trauma.

post-trauma of that.

I don't know if this is making sense.

Is this making sense?

Yes, absolutely.

So I think that was like really, really important for me to, and like I suppose this happens in the last third of the book when things should be settling down, but instead it feels like we're having her struggle

regress almost into previous bad behaviours or temptations.

And not only is she like regressing in certain areas and she's getting these cravings again, but they're also so much worse than what they are before.

And I suppose that was really important for me to highlight in the end of this book because the next book is going to be really focusing on, I suppose, the recovery of

And her resilience as a character is something that's a really core part of the story.

So I'm really excited for readers to actually be able to see where that goes.

But it was really important for me not to just, I suppose, like brush it under the rug almost and keep moving forward.

solely focusing on the plot and the action side of things.

Oh, this is really, there's so many good ones.

I think, I feel like I've always really been drawn to people

like artemis for some reason like the the huntress kind of side of things um but then you've like medea because i love an angry woman i love medea i love an angry woman um and yeah i think like the like the

witchcraft kind of side of things is really cool too like Hecate I don't know I think like if you're perfect all women oh all the women all the women isn't it fantastic that we're going this is such a great period in literature where people are like let's reclaim the feminist versions yes of these amazing women and tell those stories again yeah yeah I know I've got like a whole stack of

of books that I need to get through and I mean at one point I was tempted to do a retelling but I just don't think the being locked into a story I suppose was really for me I'm a little bit of a