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kate_m_m 's review for:
Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
Sanderson does the lazy, offensive, and othering white-as-default writing style that ONLY describes a character's skin tone if they are non-white. Examples - a character's "Asian features" (what does that even mean?) or a character's "dark skin and somewhat French accent". Beyond the offensive writing, this book is also needlessly and graphically violent for the intended age group. One battle scene describes a character getting his head smashed until his eyes are squeezed out and there are many depictions of execution style shootings. Also, there's essentially 1 1/2 women in this book and they're only seen through a relatively misogynistic and leering male gaze. I know many kids that love this but I'm too critical to like anything that's happening here.