![]() It’s fine and I expect there’s a lot more to like about the rest of the series, but to me the entire thing just sort of existed. Make sure that none of this really gets moving until the last third or so of the book (better if you’re going to read the whole series I suppose). This time around make them a 40 year old woman recently gone through a divorce. Add in your ’normal’ point of view about to get their world rocked. Take your normal urban fantasy fair: our world, but with a few twists–gargoyles for one, this time. I just wanted to look like me, however me looked in any given year. ![]() I wanted it to be okay that I wasn’t worried about beauty anymore, or worried about looking young. Like my appreciation for people’s differences, and for beauty found in unlikely places. ![]() I wanted to focus on what was right about this version of myself, like the way I’d learned to take life a little slower and enjoy each moment. I saw all the things that advertisements and social media said was wrong with me. Most of the time, when I looked in the mirror, I saw only my flaws. I felt invisible or, worse, frowned upon. I didn’t feel acknowledged for my service in raising the next generation, for my active role in the community, or even for being human sometimes. ![]() ![]() But the truth was, I didn’t feel accepted. ![]()
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