Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusations of Racism

Re:Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusat... by watwut on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:54AM (#19093926)

No, my point is that it does not parallel that. Also, I think that people who say that did not read the book at all, but found slavery mentioned in book analysis and jumped to conclusion. Because you can easily read the book without thinking about slavery at all and much less American one. The word itself is used only few times.

Also, in born abilities are not the only way to become a slave in that book. Guardians are slaves too.

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Re:Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusat... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:19AM (#19094010)

"this book" being Blood Heir, not The Fifth Season.

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Re:Y.A. Author Pulls Her Debut After Pre-Publication Accusat... by watwut on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:53AM (#19094167)

Ah, ok. I have no idea. I reacted to "It immediately reminded me of Jemisin's "The Fifth Season", because that's pretty much the central plot device there: people with dangerous magical powers being discriminated against, out of fear, in ways that directly and obviously parallel racial discrimination of blacks in real world USA." in parent. The description that made him think of fifth season does not sounds like fifth season either.

I did not read "Blood Heir" and don't know anything specific except seeing some tweets about about the issue. All those tweets were from people with strong agendas (both ways agendas but still not fully trustworthy in their analysis). Which is why I don't want to speculate on its content.

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