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A review by ethias
The Savior's Sister by Jenna Moreci
2.0
This is basically the same book as Saviors Champion but the author did not improve between the two so it still has a lot of problems that were prevalent in the first book. I can only think of about 5 things I learned different from the first book, a lot of it was just rereading the same things. I found Leila more frustrating from her own perspective than from Tobius’s which is interesting.
Also, it strikes me as a kind of insensitive decision to make Leila’s “nanny” a black woman. Really? The replacement mother for a woman who literally has glowing white skin is a black woman who is promptly murdered.
I wish there had been some sort of subversion of the white = good and black = bad trope but there was certainly not, I can’t believe the whole premise was a woman with glowing white skin who keeps the ~darkness~ at bay to save everyone. I just think it’s ironic since the author has specifically talked about subverting this exact thing in her YouTube videos.
And Pippa is heavily implied to be developmentally disabled in some capacity and she is effectively used as a method of threatening Romulus her entire life and Leila makes use of Pippa not understanding this. The only disabled characters (that I can remember) are Tobius’s sister, Pippa, and Brontes. Tobius’s sister is just a method of motivating him, Pippa is a tool for Leila’s goals, and Brontes is not effected by his disability and is the antagonist. I think that this could have been done better, maybe it will improve in future books.
Also, it strikes me as a kind of insensitive decision to make Leila’s “nanny” a black woman. Really? The replacement mother for a woman who literally has glowing white skin is a black woman who is promptly murdered.
I wish there had been some sort of subversion of the white = good and black = bad trope but there was certainly not, I can’t believe the whole premise was a woman with glowing white skin who keeps the ~darkness~ at bay to save everyone. I just think it’s ironic since the author has specifically talked about subverting this exact thing in her YouTube videos.
And Pippa is heavily implied to be developmentally disabled in some capacity and she is effectively used as a method of threatening Romulus her entire life and Leila makes use of Pippa not understanding this. The only disabled characters (that I can remember) are Tobius’s sister, Pippa, and Brontes. Tobius’s sister is just a method of motivating him, Pippa is a tool for Leila’s goals, and Brontes is not effected by his disability and is the antagonist. I think that this could have been done better, maybe it will improve in future books.