But I love how she can be optimistic and keep smiling in the face of adversity. Aoki is someone I empathise with a lot, too, and I definitely share her naivety. Her loyalty for others, how much she cares about everything, how she can be reckless in ways that can sometimes be self-destructive. I’ve also felt so close and protective of Lei, and I like to think we share a lot of the same qualities. What character do you most relate to and why? I wanted to explore what that’s like for Lei and the other girls. The awfulness, the wrongness of what happened to you lives on inside you, like a kind of poison, often impacting you in the most unexpected ways. I feel like a lot of stories don’t go further than that, or have their characters miraculously untouched in the long run by the awful things that have happened to them, and being a survivor of sexual assault myself, I know it’s not that easy. Natasha: I always envisioned sequels to Girls of Paper and Fire, so I’m really happy I’m getting to continue Lei and Wren’s story! The first book was so much about Lei’s life at the palace and how the things she experienced there impacted her, but it was the immediate kinds of impacts, the moment of and shortly after trauma. Aurora: What was your inspiration behind your most recent novel?
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