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If I had to pick one word for Heaven's Silhouette it would be ``refreshing,`` because for all its gritty urban fantasy
awesomeness, it refuses to rely on easy tropes, specifically the pseudo-feminist heroine who is an all powerful badass and magically possesses omnipresent agency.
Aurelia is not a superhero; she's strong the way real women who find themselves in bad circumstances are
strong. She finds small, personal ways to assert and preserve herself as forces bigger than her dictate the very terms of her existence. If that is not a fable of strength ... I don't know what is.
This is what speculative fiction does best. The characters are grayscale, the text engages
difficult issues rather than toeing a palatable line around them, all while the fantasy cuts open worn out paradigms like a sharp knife. Just brilliant.
