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"Madeline and Rogen are first cousins, best friends, twinned souls, each other's first love."

This is how the description started. I suppose I thought it was a young & innocent first love, but instead, it's just incestuous. Yeah, these Tierneys might as well be Lannister cousins. The writing wasn't bad & had a few good spots, but this short, YA book took a taboo topic and tried to make it acceptable. ??
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This time last year, I was reading 'Illyria' after having read "Twelfth Night" (by Shakespeare.) I was under the mistaken impression that 'Illyria' was loosely based on the play. It totally wasn't; but that's not the reason I ultimately disliked EH's novel: The promised magic was just an odd bit in the story; the relationship came across sordid; and it felt less like a YA novel than a reminiscence of the author slightly dressed as fiction. #TBT