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.)

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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.