Romance was all well and good, but I had a rather vaguer understanding of it back then, raised on the largely romance-less fantasy and sci-fi works of old as I had been. To tell the truth, I was much more interested in the excitement. I cared about two things: excitement and romance. (The book came out when I was nine, but I’m sure I didn’t read it then.) I wouldn’t have paid much attention to socioeconomic class or how closely the magic in the book hewed to realistic practices. Of course, when I first read it, I was in early high school at the oldest. I may not have been quite that bitter at reading those sentences, but I was surprised at how I didn’t remember Holly Cathers’s wealth when I first read Witch. Your parents were going to get you a horse for your eighteenth birthday. Then, for the first time, she realized, I’m rich now, too.”
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