I need to thank you. Thank you for writing strong, intelligent, fierce, learning-as-they-go female characters. Thank you for their mistakes as much as their glory, their losses next to their victories. Thank you for throwing unbeatable obstacles in their way. You know why? Because this is exactly what the world throws at people every day. And, for some reason, adolescent females get hit pretty hard. So thank you for throwing in some do-or-die friends in as well. Not perfect friends. But the best kind. The ones that tell you what you need to hear and love you more because of your flaws. And when you show them that the world will pick up and move on and so must you...you give them a gift. You are a Class Act Feminist, you are. And around here we love you for it.
Oh...
...and we especially adore you for inspiring our daughter to rock a Valkyrie Cain vibe for her High School Homecoming dance.
She did not have to kick any ass but she could have. She had the boots for it.
Much love and many thanks,
-Alpha
Do the rest f you know Derek Landy's Skullduggery Pleasant books? If you reside on the westerly side of the Atlantic I would not be surprised. But it would be worth your while to get your hands on a set.
http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/
