Then again, there is that CoC score to consider, and the point that 90% of SF reviewers don't seem to be aware that racism exists at all...
Yeah, that's about the long and the short of it. Most of the good reviews I've seen have come from sources which seem oblivious to racism. Some of the sites that gave it good marks were sites that also said that "The Thirteenth Child" by Patricia Wrede was a wonderful book.
If I had known that this book would be so *facepalm* inducing and navel-gazing to boot, I wouldn't have wasted my time on it.
This is why I am so grateful that K. Tempest Bradford put out that list of Mindblowing SF/F by Women and PoC - because it's like a buffet of WIN that I can feast upon to get the taste of fail out of my mouth.
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Date: 2009-08-30 02:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's about the long and the short of it. Most of the good reviews I've seen have come from sources which seem oblivious to racism. Some of the sites that gave it good marks were sites that also said that "The Thirteenth Child" by Patricia Wrede was a wonderful book.
If I had known that this book would be so *facepalm* inducing and navel-gazing to boot, I wouldn't have wasted my time on it.
This is why I am so grateful that K. Tempest Bradford put out that list of Mindblowing SF/F by Women and PoC - because it's like a buffet of WIN that I can feast upon to get the taste of fail out of my mouth.