But I’m glad I opened it, and gladder to have let it invite me in once I began reading. Sometimes, it’s disconcertingly hard not to judge books by their covers. Reborn.” on the front cover along with the title in a slightly tawdry font, all on a dark green-violet background, and an open dragon eye on the bottom left. I wasn’t entirely sure if it would be so when I first began. In other words, it’s a warm hug for struggling teenage girls and adult women alike. It has feminists, dragons, and fantasy world-building in a comforting font which envelops you in perfectly ordered chapters and beautifully adjusted paragraphs. If I’d been a sixth grader when I read Kelly Barnhill’s When Women Were Dragons, I would have hung up a poster of the cover in my room.
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