It's like Disney's Sleeping Beauty, with about the same amount of non-white people.īut this is just an ARC and people make stupid mistakes, right? Surely the author didn't intend to make it sound like that, right? So I continued on. Oh shucks, somebody please save the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white chick who's landed herself in some kind of magical coma. I can sum up about 80% of the plot into nothing more than finding and saving Annalise. It's like everything evil, nasty and fast-paced has just been sucked out of this story. The first few chapters are filled with Nathan's dreams of Annalise: touching her, exchanging bland conversation, staring at her skin-coloured skin and eye-coloured eyes (blue, I'd wager). Fuck knows what colour skin other ethnicities supposedly have. Not surprisingly, the character in question - Annalise - is white. Barely more than twenty pages in I was forced to do a double take when I read:īad use of descriptions aside, I cringed when I tried to conjure an image of what 'skin-coloured' could possibly mean. So if you do happen to read this and discover something amazing, it's possible that it happened while I was busy not caring. I'm going to be completely honest and say I found myself skim-reading parts of the second half because it just could not hold my attention. This is not the sequel I had hoped for when I closed Half Bad last year, exhilarated and excited for the next installment.

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