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Flawed

May 17, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Who Will Save You? Boundaries, Rescue and the Role of Adults in the Lives of Teens in YA Lit

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Eventually I will tell you what titles I am talking about and why and you will be minorly spoiled.  Not details of individual plots, but a general sense of what happens.  Read on after the jump understanding that. Consider that your spoiler alert. The Set Up The last three books I […]

May 3, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Incest, the last taboo (A discussion of Flawed by Kate Avelynn)

Please note: This post and this book deals with a sensitive subject and may be triggering for some. Back in the day of the dinosaur and before we had color tv (just kidding), there was an author named V. C. Andrews who wrote a book called Flowers in the Attic.  All my friends were reading […]

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