Maichen's physical description is bothering me...among other things

[Mochaspresso]

It could be that I have some baggage, being a person of color, but her physical description makes no sense to me. In the beginning of the series, Tres and iAm were described as "Moors". The s'Hisbe were the BDB universe's version of people of color. They had dark skin and African features. In the later books, it seems as if she backed off of the "Moors" label for them and a lot about the Shadows was shrouded in mystery. I have to be honest, I am a bit disappointed in this book thus far. I'm more than half through and there hasn't been as much about the Shadows as I thought there would be. I'm specifically referring to their culture and their ways. Some details are given, but it hasn't been fleshed out and explained. At least, not to my liking. I thought this book was going to have more.

I'm up to the part where iAm and Maichen have their rendezvous in Rhev's cabin. She's described as having very dark skin, deep red lips and peridot green eyes. Perhaps there is something wrong with me, but with that type of coloring description, all I can envision is some kind of alien. Is this just me and my personal hangups or is it just a flat out horrible way to describe a person of color? Am I being a bit picky and crazy?

[~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~]

Well, I have cousins, in my family( on my mom's & dad's side) who have light caramel coloring, like myself, to a dark mocho brown & some of them have green & blue eyes. So the descript for Maichen didn't bother me one bit. Or seem out place or weird. My mind's eye could picture what she looks like.

I too, was kinda disappointed with what little we were given concerning The Shadows & their culture/background etc.. That bothered me more than the (view spoiler)[Non HEA (hide spoiler)] though I did really like this book, if there was anything I would truly change about it, it is the limited scope we're given concerning the Shadows as a whole.

[Kelly]

I'm also a person of colour and I have become use to most books not even having a black person in it. What bothered me more was the casual way that the distruction of the town was handled by the Vampires and their mates including Mary who is still human.

[Dhfan4life]

Mochaspresso wrote: "It could be that I have some baggage, being a person of color, but her physical description makes no sense to me. In the beginning of the series, Tres and iAm were described as "Moors". The s'Hisbe..."

Ya, know. I'm just at the point in the series where I realize when it comes to Ward, we aren't going to get what the blurb is talking about. Most especially if you expecting to learn a whole lot about a culture or particular person or couple. Which sucks, but hey at least the few bits we got were kind of interesting.

As for the people of color thing. I'm just starting to think, that unless the author is doing a specific story/series with an interracial slant from the get go. It's just not going to happen. And if it does, welp it's for sure NOT going to be how I expected things to go down unfortunately.