A review by amandadglaze
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

4.0

As a book nerd raised in the 90s, Harry Potter was my childhood. I went to the midnight release parties for the books and the movies and have read them multiple times. And then went on to love fantasy series such as divergent, and the hunger games books as a young adult. As a child, I did not see the importance and how much impact seeing characters of color would have had on my adolescent self. This book shows how much of a gap there is in children’s literature in highlights main characters of color as well as the authors that write them. Also it’s really dope that the author of this novel is from Detroit and is a professor at U of M-two connections that I have (except I was merely a student at Umich!)