Tag: Rebecca Podos

Edges

Edges

by Ashley Herring Blake

Fools in Love, ed. Ashley Herring Blake & Rebecca Podos (Running Press Teens, 2021)

Book cover: “Fools in Love” ed. Ashley Herring Blake & Rebecca Podos (Running Press Teens, 2021); review of “Edges” by Ashley Herring Blake

A YA short story focussing less on queerness as an identity issue, more on the precariousness of teen romance, and how relationships can be brought undone (self-sabotaged) by faulty preconceptions and negative self-image. As ever, Blake affords her protagonist a cogent backstory.

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