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Smut factor: While it includes cave sex and a royal threesome, Mists of Avalon is overall on the chaster side by contemporary standards — lots of taking a lover into one’s arms that leaves room for imagination. Controversies: Maas has been accused of being problematic in every conceivable way, including, but not limited to: gender dynamics being both too retrograde and too girlbossy, age gaps, racial stereotypes about particular fae communities with darker skin types, lack of queer representation, and killing off a non-white character to save the white protagonist. Controversies: Complaints of racist stereotypes, including a passage in which one of the school’s many nightmarish monsters are described as insectlike pests that live in students’ dreadlocks, which Novik vowed to remove from future editions.
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