I enjoyed this live. I'm watching it after the fact. I like to read diversely black. Meaning, 99% of what I read is black authors with black characters. From various backgrounds and across genres. And the one thing that I find quite often is that these authors can not help but to center whiteness. It is very frustrating. I agree with you 100% on that. I do wish more booktubers would talk about that
I just finished this today, so I am upset that I wasn't able to slide my lil few cents in the chat. I, personally, enjoyed the book, but also went into it not expecting too much (mainly because of your point about private school settings and how Blackness is treated in such places; i also have my own unpopular opinions about political YA content). My main things that, I believe, the novel failed in was the portrayal of Andre (also didn't expect the author to nail it either); Chiamaka not being developed at all outside of her shady comments and Hillary Banks-esqueness and being biracial (which -?); that one chapter where Devon visits Andre and finds out about his ** (that chapter will haunt me for a while); and the "solution" which made me confused as to how these babies are so school smart but so naive to everything else. Like Devon is given 'the talk' from his mother, but is stunned when T tells him his peers are racists. Your commentary about setting in YA novels and who it caters to are spot on. Always enjoy your bookish thoughts!
I’m so glad I dnfed this one! I was super excited about it but after just a couple pages I knew it wasn’t for me. Your discussion and the excerpts you read really affirmed my choice to just put it down 😬👍🏾
Thanks for keeping this up. Devon is the most relatable. Chiamaka was the most superficial to the I couldn't believe her as a fictional character. And no, YA or adult, these books aren't for non-White readers. As you said that aren't enlightening for young readers. And overall all need to have trigger warnings for marginalized readers. It's sad that so much fiction supposedly for non-White readers is democratizing and triggering for them. The Ace of Spades leaped into the absurd towards the end. I wouldn't have minded how things went off I wasn't already suspending my disbelief so much for a story that isn't fantasy/sci-fi.
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I enjoyed this live. I'm watching it after the fact. I like to read diversely black. Meaning, 99% of what I read is black authors with black characters. From various backgrounds and across genres. And the one thing that I find quite often is that these authors can not help but to center whiteness. It is very frustrating.
I agree with you 100% on that. I do wish more booktubers would talk about that
I just finished this today, so I am upset that I wasn't able to slide my lil few cents in the chat. I, personally, enjoyed the book, but also went into it not expecting too much (mainly because of your point about private school settings and how Blackness is treated in such places; i also have my own unpopular opinions about political YA content).
My main things that, I believe, the novel failed in was the portrayal of Andre (also didn't expect the author to nail it either); Chiamaka not being developed at all outside of her shady comments and Hillary Banks-esqueness and being biracial (which -?); that one chapter where Devon visits Andre and finds out about his ** (that chapter will haunt me for a while); and the "solution" which made me confused as to how these babies are so school smart but so naive to everything else. Like Devon is given 'the talk' from his mother, but is stunned when T tells him his peers are racists.
Your commentary about setting in YA novels and who it caters to are spot on. Always enjoy your bookish thoughts!
I’m so glad I dnfed this one! I was super excited about it but after just a couple pages I knew it wasn’t for me. Your discussion and the excerpts you read really affirmed my choice to just put it down 😬👍🏾
Thanks for keeping this up. Devon is the most relatable. Chiamaka was the most superficial to the I couldn't believe her as a fictional character. And no, YA or adult, these books aren't for non-White readers. As you said that aren't enlightening for young readers. And overall all need to have trigger warnings for marginalized readers. It's sad that so much fiction supposedly for non-White readers is democratizing and triggering for them. The Ace of Spades leaped into the absurd towards the end. I wouldn't have minded how things went off I wasn't already suspending my disbelief so much for a story that isn't fantasy/sci-fi.