Bad People Abuse Animals: Kiersten Jenkins and Tommy Pearson.Otherwise, if she returns from the grace year, she would be obligated to marry that man. And Now You Must Marry Me: Tierney wants to make sure no one offers her a veil during the veiling ceremony. Alpha Bitch: On the way to the encampment, Kiersten Jenkins bullies a girl until she runs off into the woods to cry.This novel contains examples of the following tropes: There's the elements, wild animals, and as Tierney learns, the biggest danger: each other. There are poachers ready to hunt down grace year girls so they can sell their "magical" body parts on the black market. By spending a year, they can purge this evil magic and come back purified and either ready for marriage (if they have been "veiled", that is, given a veil by the man who will claim them for marriage upon return) or for assignment to backbreaking labor at the mill, people's houses, or the fields (protagonist Tierney James's preference). It is believed that being right on the edge of womanhood, they have a special magic that can seduce grown men and drive women jealous. Once a year, sixteen-year-old girls are banished into the wild. Garner County has a very odd tradition that they are not allowed to talk about. The Grace Year, by Kim Liggett, is a 2019 YA novel.
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