A few months ago, I heard about Ciara’s Courtney Summers read along. She’d put out a call for guest posts, and I decided it’d be fun to give it a shot.

So today you can head over there and read what I have to say about female characters, about gender, and about how great Summers is at writing girls that we know. Even if you’ve never read any of these books, I think the post speaks to the idea of how we box and label female characters and how our perceptions as readers would change were those females instead written as males.

I’m giving away a set of her books, as well, and the giveaway is open to anyone worldwide who can get shipments from The Book Depository.