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Warning: This story deals with child abuse and bullying.

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“I originally wanted to do a Joker book for the YA line. They explained to me that they weren’t doing villains, but they still said they’d like to hear the pitch. I had worked on an X-Files book, and my friend, Dr. Ed Kurz, was one of my consultants. He’s a real forensic psychiatrist profiler. I’ve always been interested in possibly writing an adult serial killer suspense novel, and Ed and I were talking about how there are psychopaths that never kill anyone. How does a boy or a girl who’s a regular kid end up becoming Ted Bundy? I was really interested in telling that kind of a story about the Joker. But the more I dug into the story, and the more that Ed consulted on it with me, it became clear that it was not going to be appropriate for YA. I really had to go dark with it. I wanted it to be true.” — Kami Garcia 

Warning for child abuse 

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