One great part about Isako being in her fifties is that the respect that she commands from random people for being the best of the best in her field actually feels realistic and earned! I feel like so much of the fantasy genre has young twenty-somethings walking around with an impossibly perfect reputation of someone twice their age and the kind of combat competence that takes decades to build muscle memory for.

Isako having built an illustrious career as an effective A-Tier is just so much more believable because that kind of reputation takes time and maturity to build, and also takes its toll on the body, as she’s now experiencing. In some ways, it’s even more impressive to still be this physically capable at 50 than it is to be an athlete in your 20s when your body is in peak condition anyway, making her a really intriguing character to root for.

I just saw @Olivka's post about wanting more YA books in quests and readalongs where some boundlings said that many books to earn badges aren't very mature even if they aren't marketed to a younger audience.

While I am not underage, I am not too inclined towards reading books with sexual themes and spicy scenes. I also have a teen sibling who is a voracious reader and I've just introduced them to PB and they love it. I do wish though that there were quests I could confidently recommend for that age group except the two I know are MG.

My suggestion is that there can be an addition of a spice and age rating system (much like for movies) that allows interested readers to decide if they want to read a book at first glance. I am aware that sites like StoryGraph and romance.io have these features of trigger warnings and and spice ratings, which use often. But it would be preferable to have everything all in one place and there was a better way of judging how appropriate a book is. What are your thoughts on this?

is there any way to look at a series vs a book? in other apps when you open a book it tells you if the book is in a series and where in the series it is and you can open the full list from the one book. i was wondering if there’s a way to do that on here too