"Brain and brain! What is 'brain'?"

[jane_drew_]

You know how, when you read a really, really amazing “up until three in the morning, can’t stop thinking about it book,” you make that “good book noise” happy sigh as you’re thinking about it and waiting until you can read it again

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[jane_drew_]

I read a review (reviewer also wanted to beat her head against the wall over the book) where one of the reviewer's main points was that this was a book which would have done a lot better as a YA book rather than the weird new "New YA" category which publishers have created to try to catch college-aged folks. Her point was that a heroine who reads as entitled and dumber than a box of bricks as an eighteen-year-old would have been believable as a very sheltered fifteen-year-old. I think it would also have made more sense in terms of "take maximum advantage of female fertility" to marry girls off at fifteen or sixteen and added to the squick factor of the bride auctions.

Still wouldn't have solved the "you do all realize that it's not women who determine the sex of the baby, yes?" logic fail.