Anonymous #1 4w

Nah cause I had to put the book down for a while

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Anonymous #3 4w

It’s just incredibly icky imo. The book is set in the South and deals with white-supremacist secret organizations so the main character’s race (being black American) is incredibly important to the plot and the receives a lot of microaggressions and outright racism from people he aligns with

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Anonymous OP 4w

What book??

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Anonymous OP 4w

What book is this?! I’m absolutely baffled

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Anonymous OP 4w

Totally get this perspective. However what does that say about real life? Do you support interracial marriages in the south even though these same issues are happening today? And does he align with those people or is just related to them? I feel like in a romance book, the author would set him apart for the plot direction of the relationship. Again I’m being genuine because idk what book we’re talkin about 😅

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Anonymous #3 4w

So, because the male of interest has grown up around these people who have these horrible tendencies, he definitely has some of them ingrained into him. As someone who is from the south, it is something that is very hard to unlearn and takes a long time.I just found it a little weird that it was something the author chose to put into the book when there are multiple other ways that the inequality the main character has experienced at the hands of these organisations can be handled.

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Anonymous OP 4w

It is a very good book that discusses the complexities of systematic racism in the south and how child slavery has affected the African-American descendants of slaves, but this one part of the book just took me out and really shocked me

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Anonymous OP 4w

What?! I didn’t expect that. It’s a very well known book

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Anonymous #5 4w

Yeah, it is. I very much enjoyed the book overall, and I do plan on reading the rest in the series. There are obviously some parts of the book that make the reader very uncomfortable, but that is what they are supposed to do as they mirror what sometimes happened in real life as a result of child slavery in the American South

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Anonymous #1 4w

i’m sorry… is that a hello kitty flesh light?

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Anonymous #6 4w

That's an interpretation that I never would've thought of on my own 😨

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Anonymous #7 4w

No, thank god. It’s a whole thing… the only reason they’re not related is because one of his ancestors cheated with a family friend and got pregnant that way and had no children with her husband. The main character’s ancestor is unfortunately a product of sexual assault :(

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