Thoughts?
So, at Kirkus today I wrote about the upcoming Immortal Rules.
Which—assuming it hasn't been changed—has this cover art:
I pulled some quotes* from the text that make it quite clear that the main character, Allison Sekemoto, is of Asian descent. Like, for instance, some dudes in a dark alley refer to her as a "sweet little Asian doll". (Don't worry, she totally kicks their asses up and down the street.)
Errr. So, yeah. Am I seeing things, or are we looking at another case of whitewashing?
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*The formatting at Kirkus looks a bit off -- the first two quotes are one line each, and the third one is three lines long.