![]() This paper argues that, rather than binarily opposed, water and ice exist on a continuum of relation and that this continuum speaks to a defining characteristic of YA. Ice may be unforgiving but it is also penetrable, and it may become water once again. ![]() Water may hear and understand, but it is also hungry and potentially destructive. However, in typical YA fashion opposition is complicated. running throughout the novels: “Grisha” (magically gifted)/not "merch" (merchant)/Dreg (gang member, living in the Barrel) free/indentured (slave), muddy/pure. Moreover, this opposition speaks to several oppositional categories. The ice does not forgive" (Six of Crows 253), water/ice appears to offer a binary opposition between that which is fluid and that which is solid. Encapsulated in a Fjerdan saying, "The water hears and understands. ![]() In Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom duology, there is an underlying tension between water and ice. ![]()
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