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THE CERULEAN is one of the most physically lovely books I’ve ever seen. The insides are... not quite so lovely. 💠 While I found this book super entertaining and engaging, it had a few problems, two of which I want to talk about. One is a big spoiler, and the other isn’t a spoiler at all. Leave now if you don’t want to read any spoilers. 💠 First, the book opens in a city structured as an all-female society with marriages occurring between queer women, which I’ve seen reviewers describing as a “poly lesbian” society. I wouldn’t describe it that way for a few reasons (most of which are Lofty Spec-Fic Writer Worldbuilding Snob reasons) but—and this is a big reason the book has low ratings—the protagonist, Sera, is straight. A lot of readers who came for the lesbian utopian island are not happy about that, which I think is fair. 💠 The author made the active decision to make the brown people racist, misogynist, and oppressive while framing the white people as oppressed free spirits. While other reviewers complain that Sera is a “glowing white girl from the sky,” I actually view her as more of an alien—she’s from outer space—but that still leaves the bizarre authorial decisions about race in the story. 💠 I had fun reading this book, but I would absolutely want other readers to know about these things before making a decision about the book. #bookreview #bookreviews #amreadingfantasy

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Book Mail for the week ending February 4, 2017

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