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  "textContent": "\"'Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,'\" the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-won't-they tension,\" writes Beatrix Kondo in her analysis of the romantasy sensation. \"What the book actually delivers is something else entirely—the first chapters of a feminist high fantasy saga with a queer and Pagan reading.\"\n\nContinue reading Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of “Thorn Season” at The Wild Hunt.",
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