![]() ![]() The largest changes take place in Alice’s friendship with Jane and with Jane herself. I have left the overall story intact as often as possible, but I re-worked so much of the internalized hatred that Alice feels and how she expresses herself. Especially once I knew there were legitimate issues with the books. ![]() It took me a long time to be able to feel the original love and enthusiasm I had for Alice and her complicated world of vampire. Some of the complaints were justified (calling out the problematic issues) but it was still a jarring experience for me. After I published it, I read a few reviews that eviscerated the books. When I was first writing the My Blood Approves Saga, I loved it completely. That led me to have a difficult relationship with these books. While much of the original book was a fun vampire romp, there were also unfortunate moments of misogyny, body-shaming, and ablism, among other problematic elements. When I wrote them, I was still in my early twenties, and I had a lot of internalized issues that I hadn’t confronted yet. ![]() These novels were originally published in 2010. Bestow the Darkness A Note from the Author ![]()
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