I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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so far about 1/3 of the way in, I think it is relatively new
it is a fantasy africa and the worldbuilding appears to be cribbed from avatar the last airbender
Some people are born with magic power in a convenient category like fire or telepathy or whatever, with a description how magic works that is pretty close to midichlorians. Then magic was destroyed so the ruling empire didn't have to deal with threats and now the former magic users and their decedents are oppressed.
Naturally the empire is lighter skin and the oppressed magic people are darker. You can tell the author(s) are black because there is a lot of emphasis placed on every characters skin colors and stating the skin color in descriptions when it really isn't necessary.
Gotcha. Sounds like a black American view of Africa.