Girls of Paper and Fire

This was a great addition to LGBT YA Fantasy! I did have some nitpicks with it, and I wish a lot of it had been more developed (a general complaint from me about most YA fantasy), but overall I enjoyed it and I'm so glad it exists.

Some thoughts:

• I appreciate that there was a sexual violence warning at the beginning of the book. I already knew that content was going to be in this book from goodreads reviews, but many readers won't have seen that before reading, and I think it's so important for books (especially YA) to have brief warnings like this one did.
• I loved that this book showed how girls can support each other, but also still disagree with and dislike each other. I do wish some more of the girls/women in the book (especially Blue and Mistress Eira) had been in on the plan to overthrow the king. Maybe in the sequels.
• The ending was very rushed and felt disjointed from the rest of the book.
• The romance was sweet but didn't really feel based on much of anything. I wish it had been more developed.