A non-Black blogger who gets it!
Yeah. I'm bringing race into it. If anyone tells you that not everything revolves around race here...They are either liars, deep asleep or never spent two minutes on this soil.
Yeah, I said it.
I thank Ms. Merry for taking the chance on acceptimg my review request, actually bothering to read my book and, surprise of all surprises, LIKING my book. She ADORED that it was not a run-of-the-mill, routine historical romance. She praised the fact that since it is a HISTORICAL romance it has HISTORY in it!
Can you imagine that? Something being what it is advertized to be?
She loved the detail. She loved how I blended the research I did with my story-telling. She adored that it did not have the usual cast of characters.
It was different. Something she'd been craving.
The two most wonderful compliments she paid the book were that 1) it was long (which she liked) and that as a new mom she looked forward to returning to the story at the end of a busy day to get "swept up in Awa and Blaise's journey."
She called my book, "exquisite." Sigh.
She got the concept. She got my vision. The book had ALL the elements to qualify it as a historical romance but the main characters were atypical. She didn't whine about a "non-White heroine being hard to relate to."
She got it!
She didn't compare the book to other romances other than she wished they'd "change things up, and break down the usual cliches of the genre."
You got it, Ms. Merry. Thank you.
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