This is exactly the process the main character, Elloren Gardner, goes through.Įlloren is surrounded by people from different races who all hate each other, and for her first bit of time at University she has a lot of her biases confirmed.
Not similar in plot, but similar in that we have a young person, raised with a certain set of beliefs, perpetuating those beliefs for a time, and eventually coming to question whether or not those beliefs are valid when confronted with real world experience & knowledge. The Black Witch is similar to what we'd be reading if Rowling had written Harry Potter & cast Draco as the protagonist. Speaking of Harry Potter, any of you who ever found it in your heart to sympathize with Draco Malfoy but concluded this book is problematic (likely without reading it) may want to reevaluate. Seriously though, since when is portraying characters with shitty belief systems the same as condoning characters with shitty belief systems?Īnd I must ask, have we not made it past the point where we accept that people are not all good or all bad? That it's the part of ourselves we act on that make us who we are? Wasn't this one of the fundamental lessons in the Harry Potter series? My opinion? This book was preemptively dragged through the mud for nothing. ideologies about races that exist in reality. No, I do not feel that the author condones racist, homophobic, ableist, etc. Yes, a defining motivation for almost everything that happens in this book is racial tension between a handful of fantasy races. Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed in those people who condemned this book before giving it a chance. Her best hope of survival may be among the most unlikely band of rebels…if only she can find the courage to trust those she’s been taught to fear.
But she soon realizes that the university, which admits all manner of people-including the fire-wielding, winged Icarals, the sworn enemies of all Gardnerians-is a treacherous place for the granddaughter of the Black Witch.Īs evil looms on the horizon and the pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she knew will be challenged and torn away. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University to embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother’s legacy. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else.
A new Black Witch will rise…her powers vast beyond imagining.Įlloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War.
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