This book has been a huge controversy, so of course I was drawn to it. As I started, I was a little hesitant, but then I realized that this book wasn't racist. It was about racism, about even the nicest people blindly accepting the prejudices that their parents, community, and culture spew about others, and about going out into the world and finding your voice and your own goddamned opinions.
So of course I like it. On page 147, there was a turning point for me:
Wait- WHAT? This highly regarded grandmother, the famed 'Black Witch' was frickin not what she seemed to be? Hold the phone, because this just got way more interesting.
So, as any intelligent person is welcome to do, Ren starts digging into the history books and finding out what shit really went down in her people's history according to other races, and dang was there a lot of ugly shit in there.
All in all, very intelligent highly pointed nod at possibly real events that have happened time and again in a fantasy setting, and of course some hot men and sexual tension. Gotta love it! I can't wait for the next book!
So of course I like it. On page 147, there was a turning point for me:
"I cannot promise you that the girl will be safe if they view you as complacent, not after what this girl's grandmother did to our people, and what she would have succeeded in doing has that Icaral not cut her down."
Wait- WHAT? This highly regarded grandmother, the famed 'Black Witch' was frickin not what she seemed to be? Hold the phone, because this just got way more interesting.
So, as any intelligent person is welcome to do, Ren starts digging into the history books and finding out what shit really went down in her people's history according to other races, and dang was there a lot of ugly shit in there.
All in all, very intelligent highly pointed nod at possibly real events that have happened time and again in a fantasy setting, and of course some hot men and sexual tension. Gotta love it! I can't wait for the next book!
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