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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?
Karen I didn’t even know about this book until late 2021, about a year after it was published. I snapped it up, devoured it, loved it. Only when I came to G…moreI didn’t even know about this book until late 2021, about a year after it was published. I snapped it up, devoured it, loved it. Only when I came to Goodreads to see the conversation did I hear of this controversy, and the dreadlocks passage confused me because it’s not in my book. So, if anyone wonders, be assured that later editions really don’t have that passage.

I’m glad she removed it, because there are no characters in the book who have dreadlocks. So, why use it as an example? She makes the same point about how long hair presents a vulnerability to maleficaria in the context of describing an actual character (less)
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A Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
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