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A review by mexican_ninjas
The Riven Kingdom by Karen Miller
1.0
I stopped about 30 pages in. Plainly I'm disappointed and disgusted. In the first book, I had inklings about where this was headed. The 30 pages of this second book (along with a look at the epilogue of the last book, Hammer of God), confirmed my suspicions.
This trilogy fulfills the white savior complex and it has racial and religious implications where white and Christianity is better. The people of Mijak are brown and dark, "foreign savages" who own slaves and follow a god with harsh laws. They are painted as the bad guys. People in Riven are fair and follow a Christian-like god, they are painted as the victims who must defend themselves from these savages.
I bought these books when I was about 14. I'm happy I never got around to reading them when I had such an impressionable mind inside my brown head.
This trilogy fulfills the white savior complex and it has racial and religious implications where white and Christianity is better. The people of Mijak are brown and dark, "foreign savages" who own slaves and follow a god with harsh laws. They are painted as the bad guys. People in Riven are fair and follow a Christian-like god, they are painted as the victims who must defend themselves from these savages.
I bought these books when I was about 14. I'm happy I never got around to reading them when I had such an impressionable mind inside my brown head.