I seldom venture into YA fandom these days, but I share your suspicions about the self-reinforcing shipwar focus. Team Edward vs Team Jacob and Abusive Twilight discourse have a lot to answer for tbh. No matter how many feminist talking points authors manage to shoehorn in, I find it depressing how they never seem to question that heterosexual romance is the Most Important thing teenage girls need to be educated and guided on.

Joke's on Bardugo, anyway, because my irresistible lizard-brain reaction to all her obsessive asides about how much Zoya hates the Darkling was that now I ship them like burning. 'Superpowered woman has furious unwanted sexual chemistry with her sullen black-clad enemy' is ... um, not the right dynamic to convince me to stop being horny about villains. (On a clearly very unrelated note, I love your icon!)