alexandraerin:
underthestarssofaraway:
girljanitor:
sourcedumal:
girljanitor:
mylesbiansensesaretinglingagain:
girljanitor:
Okay, so I had planned to write a big long review of this book, but you know what? It’s too fucking good.
You need to buy this book.
It is a fantasy novel. It is the best fantasy novel. It is in a fantasy universe populated with protagonists of color, and evil white people. There are a few good white people, but mostly evil white people who have wayyyy too much power and are evil.
You need to buy this book if only for the scene where the disabled Black woman protagonist picks up a bottle of white people shampoo, sniffs it, and just rolls her eyes and thinks, are they expecting me to use this astringent shit on my beautiful Maroneh(Black) woman hair?
It in particular is actually the second book in the series, but I accidentally read it out of order the first time (and have since read the other) and it didn’t particularly suffer from being read out of order.
You need to buy this book.
There is also a bit of sexy sex. The exact right amount of sexy sex.
I cannot tell you how much I fell in love with this book. All three, but in particular this one was my favorite.
There is also a significant amount of queer sex in the trilogy. QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOR.
This is N. K. Jemisin. She wrote this book.
You need to buy all of her books.
I plan to.
just bought this, can’t wait to read it
IT’S SO GOOD. IT GAVE ME LIFE. ALL THREE ARE SO GOOD BUT THIS WAS MY FAVE BECAUSE OREE IS SO AMAZING.
I got to ‘fantasy world with protagonists of color’ and that was all I needed to know.
seriously, it’s sooooo good. It made me go out and buy fresh art supplies i maybe can’t afford just so I can start making fan art.
As a white chick, I think I’ll pass but thanks. I’m so done with being told I’m evil because of my skin color.
It’s interesting how you feel that a book with white antagonists or an “evil” race that is white reflects on your skin color. I suppose the next time a sf/f fandom argument breaks out over whether having the evil races be dark-skinned in most every fantasy world ever has any effects on the real world people who read them, we can count on you to turn up and say “Well, of course it does.”?
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