Be My Hero
2014 • 377 pages

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15

No. Why? For what reason?

I hard Dnfed this out of anger. Unsolicited advice from your local POC, don't use black/mixed characters, and black stereotypes as a plot device to make your white heroes/heroines look like good people. (I.e. The father of Tristy's son is an absentee black father who beats his girlfriend?? Gonna be honest I skim read the rest, and is he the only black character in the book???)

Quite frankly, I have a very low bar when it comes to things like this. I mostly don't notice, and I generally take no issue reading a book where every character is white. ESPECIALLY so long as I don't have to read bullsh*t like this.

Also, don't describe half black babies as looking like “hulking gorillas” next to white babies, even if your heroine meant it in a “nice”(?) way cause shes just a tiny blonde tinker bell angel.

Thanks.

January 1, 2023Report this review