From the back Defiance by C. J. Redwine is rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce. While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. Exhibit A. Rachel is not like other girls. I don't know about you, but why are YA heroines the only tomboys in the whole wide world, and girly girls are always weak, useless and below the heroine. Exhibit B. So according to Rachel sewing is useless. She finds hunting and killing things far more useful. (I guess she hunts in the nude then, I mean where does she get her cloths? ) Exhibit C. Sparring is a show of strength. The only way for a woman to be strong is to be a killing machine. (It isn't) Exhibit D. Simmular to A, Rachel is the only girl who his tomboyish in the entire world. She is the only
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