Gilded Cage

Though there are times when the introduction and explication of these themes sometimes feels a little heavy-handed...the fact remains that they are front-and-centre in this novel ??? something I feel is important in a YA novel, recent examples of which have had a terrible tendency to shove important themes aside in favour of whatever romantic polygon happens to be ongoing in the plot. Other readers have actually complained about how the book is so ???political???, but I for my part welcome the political nature of this novel. While many YA books claim to highlight those vital themes, not all of them actually use them as anything more than plot elements to support a romance.

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