harlequin teen has a new book out in may 2017 called THE BLACK WITCH by Laurie Forest that has been hurting a tremendous amount of people in the bookish community through its extremely racist content. here’s a post by a young WOC that will hopefully give you an idea about what books like this do to us.

here is a very detailed review that recaps the plot and mentions all the problematic content. from establishing that biracial people are “half-breeds”, to slavery and rape as plot devices, to a whole arc about racial impurity because of mixed race heritage … this isnt even half of the dangerous content in there. there is also a lot of homophobia and ableism.

here’s what you need to do

review the book on goodreads to attract the publishers attention (they need to notice that we wont tolerate racist books)

if you can, also send an email to harlequin teen

talk about the book, make your own posts all over social media

boost everyone who mentions the racism in this book

inform people who plan on reading it of the racism

make sure you listened properly: ive seen a lot of people condemn THE BONE WITCH by Rin Chupeco instead which is a beautifully diverse book by a woman of color. 

After Feysand come back to the camp after their chapter 55, Illyrians are shown grabbing their wives and children and shooting into the sky to protect them from any potential harm that might come due to territorial instincts. If Illyrians just used women as breeding machines and saw children as potential warriors they wouldn’t do that, if they truly had no value for anyone other than themselves they would’ve ushered them into homes and flown them far away and dropped them off. But no, they grabbed whatever family they had and circled the skies above until Rhys and Feyre had gotten it out of their system.

Both SJM and VR made large mistakes but in my experience from the fandom I’ve only seen VR get flack for it, even when SJM wrote her POC race in a disgraceful manner. I also saw a lot of people hating on VR to get on the ‘cool’ bandwagon which irked me quite a bit since it shows that they don’t truly feel these effects and are angry about them, rather they just blindly follow what their favourite account said.

After Feysand come back to the camp after their chapter 55, Illyrians are shown grabbing their wives and children and shooting into the sky to protect them from any potential harm that might come due to territorial instincts. If Illyrians just used women as breeding machines and saw children as potential warriors they wouldn’t do that, if they truly had no value for anyone other than themselves they would’ve ushered them into homes and flown them far away and dropped them off. But no, they grabbed whatever family they had and circled the skies above until Rhys and Feyre had gotten it out of their system.

Both SJM and VR made large mistakes but in my experience from the fandom I’ve only seen VR get flack for it, even when SJM wrote her POC race in a disgraceful manner. I also saw a lot of people hating on VR to get on the ‘cool’ bandwagon which irked me quite a bit since it shows that they don’t truly feel these effects and are angry about them, rather they just blindly follow what their favourite account said.

Also, shut the fuck up.

After Feysand come back to the camp after their chapter 55, Illyrians are shown grabbing their wives and children and shooting into the sky to protect them from any potential harm that might come due to territorial instincts. If Illyrians just used women as breeding machines and saw children as potential warriors they wouldn’t do that, if they truly had no value for anyone other than themselves they would’ve ushered them into homes and flown them far away and dropped them off. But no, they grabbed whatever family they had and circled the skies above until Rhys and Feyre had gotten it out of their system.

Like, I read 50 Shades purely so that when I complained about it, I knew what I was talking about. I didn’t just go ‘oh I heard from one person about this so…’