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My Teen Daughter Wrote a Romantasy Novel. I Read It—And It Sends a Very Alarming Message.
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My Teen Daughter Wrote a Romantasy Novel. I Read It—And It Sends a Very Alarming Message.

Slate Magazine·Michelle Herman·about 1 month ago
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Care and Feeding She needs to rethink this story. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column.  Have a question for Care and Feeding?  Submit it here . Dear Care and Feeding, I have a 16-year-old daughter, “Katrina.” Katrina likes to read, albeit mostly romantasy. And now she’s writing her own romantasy novel. She asked me to be a kind of beta reader for it, and I agreed. What I’ve read has troubled me. The basic premise is that the two lead characters, “Sloane and Ulysses,” wake up together with amnesia. Sloane has lost the last 24 hours; Ulysses has no conscious memory at all. They then spend the story trying to recover their memories and absentmindedly flirting when they’re not focused on the task at hand.…

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