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

5.0

This book should be required reading for all fandom studies scholars, SFF fans, and most importantly SFF writers. The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas excellently explores how Black female characters are presented in The Hunger Games, Merlin, the Vampire Diaries, and Harry Potter to show when these characters fall into the dark fantastic cycle, meaning they are sacrificed, forever the Other, and/or always dying and haunting the narrative. This was a thorough informational and investigative book.