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posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jodi McAlisterJodi McAlister

The third thrilling book in Jodi McAlister’s page-turning Valentine series. Things that happen sometimes when your boyfriend is a magical fairy prince: he gets kidnapped by his older brother and whisked away to fulfil his destiny in their magical fairy kingdom. But Pearl Linford is not having that. It’s time for a rescue mission. Pearl told Finn she was coming to get him and she's not going to let anyone in her way. But will Finn want to be saved? And should she have listened to all those people who told her he wasn't worth saving?

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Pagination

1-404

ISBN-13

9780143793465

ISBN-10

0143793462

Language

eng

Research statement

Background Young adult paranormal romance (YAPNR) has been a very visible subgenre of romance since the emergence of Twilight, but also highly criticised, in particular, because of the way it regularly encodes gendered power dynamics in heterosexual romantic relationships through portraying superpowered men and human women. In my YAPNR novels, I sought to explore ways in which these dynamics might be revised and corrected, reflecting what Alison Light calls “relations impossibly equalised” (1986, 142), while maintaining the emotional essence of the romance narrative. Contribution This portfolio contains three novels - Valentine (2017), Ironheart (2018), and Misrule (2019). The protagonists of these YAPNR novels are in many ways archetypical – human Pearl and superpowered Finn. However, by revising the ways in which the tropes of the genre are articulated, these novels offer fresh possibilities for the ways we tell love stories. In addition, these books explore new ways to tell love stories that are not about *romantic* love, but rather friendship, as narrativised through the parallel telling of Pearl and Phil’s friendship. Significance These novels are published by Big Five publisher Penguin, and widely read. Valentine had an initial print run of 5000 copies and has been reprinted several times, appearing on bestseller lists as recently as September 2019. Their success has led to numerous appearances at literary events and festivals: eg. in 2019 the researcher appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, Wheeler Centre, State Library of Victoria, and fan convention Supanova. For many, the researcher was invited as both author and scholar, allowing them to discuss this research into romance in the context of creative practice.

Publication classification

JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual Work

Scale

NTRO Major

Extent

43

Publisher

Penguin

Place of publication

[Melbourne, Vic.]

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Keywords

young adult fiction 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting)School of Communication and Creative Arts 3602 Creative and professional writing

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