Just a little Word

[idiosyncreant]

I don't think I have much to contribute to the current debate on white-washing of covers or movies or Blog Against Racism Week.
But here's a collection of books I picked up because the person on the cover is *not* white.

Amusingly, Un Lun Dun's heroine is, as far as I can tell, Anglo--the cover fooled me. And I picked it up for that reason. So I'm telling on myself here...

(Above is fantasy, below is YA.)

Comments

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

ULD was rather drunk on its own "inventiveness" I thought.

I sure do like the art on those Lindskold covers, though <3

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Yeah...it was kind of annoying. It wasn't actually clever, to me. *shrug* BUT I got through the beginning to where the cockney half-ghost gets more screen-time, there's an eerie library, and the heroine blooms without her friend being a repressive influence and came to enjoy it somewhat.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

not going to lie, the tiger on the first cover is kind of freaking me out/reminding me of the scene in Wicked where they go to that party and things go badly for Boq and some other people, which also freaked me out.

so you picked these books up--which ones should we pick up?

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

All of them are worth reading.

Tiger's Apprentice looked a little malevolent to me, too (though I don't know much about Wicked) but it's fun. A lot of Chinese mythical creatures and imagination in the magical side of the world. The dialogue isn't very fresh, and some of the writing wears on me, but I like Laurence Yep on general principle and forgave him for this.