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Brigid asked this question about A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1):
Hearing tell of some incredibly racist passages in this. Who else is taking this off their TBR?
urwa there was a bit about dreadlocks that were racially insensitive but the author apologized for that saying it was added very late. And the intent of th…morethere was a bit about dreadlocks that were racially insensitive but the author apologized for that saying it was added very late. And the intent of the passage was to show how the mc was cynical of everything from hairstyles, to the clothes people wore and how they would increase/decrease their chances of surviving in a place desperately trying to kill you. I am a POC, as well as one of the ethnicities represented in this book, which ppl had an issue with but I found nothing that offended me. People from my ethnicity might have been offended but I can only speak for myself.(less)
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A Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
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