From one of the very first authors to bring magical realism to the YA genre. The prose queen herself, Anna-Marie McLemore.
If you don't know her name, look it up. Read everything she ever read. Repeat.
Seriously, if you didn't hate yourself (calling all you writers out there) for your description, you will after reading hers. It's practically poetry. It transports you places.
Not to mention how freaking well she does story retellings. And how she twists fairytales, turning them back into their dark, original selfs. Or how she almost effortlessly weaves queer characters/relationships into her story. How most of her main characters are marginalized POC. How she keeps getting better and better and better.
Okay, without further ado, please have at the description for her latest novel "Dark and Deepest Red":
["Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves.
Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes."]
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