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But Rowan doesn’t want to be a dirty little secret and doesn’t see why Cass can’t be honest about this part of her life. Pansexual Taylor is a gamer, a little bit punk, White like Cass, and so, so great-but she still can’t help comparing her to Rowan, Cass’ online best friend and role-playing ship partner. But on the other hand, Cass is finally dating her amazingly cute longtime crush, Taylor. Also, her mom has suddenly left Minneapolis and moved to Maine to be with a man she met online.

And sure, maybe she’s missed a college application deadline. Now, turning to her role-play friends to cope with her fighting parents, she worries that people will judge her for her fannishness and online life. Back in middle school, she had what she calls a gaming addiction, playing “The Sims” so much her parents had to take the game away. 13-16)Ĭan a 17-year-old with her first girlfriend prevent real-life folks from discovering her online fandoms?Ĭass is proudly queer, happily fat, and extremely secretive about being a fan who role-plays on Discord. The conclusion is startlingly wholesome, comfortable and complete for the usually dark Werlin, and the melding of magic and practicality produces a lovely whole. Modern logic and methodology mesh splendidly with fairy lore if emergency contraception won’t break the curse, then maybe duct tape will.

It all seems to be connected to an ancient fairy curse that’s detailed in a strange version of the song “Scarborough Fair.” Together with her parents and childhood friend Zach, Lucy vows to break the curse. But what Lucy and her parents don’t know is that it’s not just Lucy’s mother who went mad, but her grandmother, her great-grandmother and further back, through countless generations: She is descended from a long line of women who have babies at age 18 and then go mad. Lucy lives with the beloved foster parents who have cared for her since her teenage mother went crazy after Lucy’s birth. In this modern-day fairy tale, 17-year-old Lucy and her loved ones apply 21st-century rationality to their quest to escape an ancient curse.