Laileanah

My favorite of the series!

Revisado: 01-01-25

This was a delightful installment in this series.
Congrats to the happy couple!
I loved her father and look forward to him being in other novels.

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An important novel

Revisado: 07-25-24

This is the second half of my favorite authors best work.
The unfinished Parable series is the best dystopian written, an eerily accurate predictor of our current times and a guide if we are courageous enough to let the past go.

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impeccably researched

Revisado: 04-23-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

First, I want to start with what I loved, which was the audiobook format. If you are going to read this, please consider choosing the audiobook format. This featured what sounded like a cast of Black voices reading quotes. It was delightful, and I adored it. What a wonderful way to illustrate the mostly lost voices of these folks. I also want to say that while I do not agree with the author, all of the history is thoroughly sourced. It is wonderful for the quotes alone from the Civil War era, Black folks. I can not stress how much hearing their own words spoken touched me. I fully plan to read more by this author when I get to my studies of Abraham Lincoln. I don't think the author meant any malice as he left the final impression of Lincoln up to the reader. I feel he does this by excusing Lincoln's racist statements and behaviors as either misunderstood by modern audiences or said to influence his racist white peers. I disagree with this view of his behaviors. It gives Lincoln too much grace and doesn't acknowledge that white supremacy has never functioned in logical ways.
The problem with this book is its implication that Black Lives Matter and other anit-racist activist organizations were shortsighted to call Abraham Lincoln racist or a supporter of white supremacy. This argument includes the idea that historical figures can not or should not be judged with today's morals.
The text began with this quote, "In January 2021, the San Francisco Unified School District voted to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because of the former president’s policies toward Native Americans and African Americans According to Jeremiah Jeffries,..., “Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building."
This book is mostly a response to the above quote via direct quotes from Black folks who met with Lincoln from 1861-1865; shaking his hands and casual greetings. The author thinks this changed Lincoln's view of Black folks. I do believe that Black Leaders who met with Lincoln influenced him, but that isn't an indication that Lincoln didn't hold racist and white supremacist beliefs.
Black Lives Matter and other anti-racist activist organizations label Lincoln racist based on this quote "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines: racism as: 1) a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
white supremacy as: 1) the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.
Neither Lincoln shaking the hands of Black folks nor listening to the concerns of Black Leaders alters these indisputable facts.
After Lincoln was assassinated, a propagandist rather than a historically accurate narrative was applied to Abraham Lincoln as The Great Emancipator in the Black community, heavily supported by Black Leaders. Current Black historians see Lincoln in a different light. This doesn't mean that Black folks or other POC who view him based on the oppressive experiences of their ancestors are wrong. History told from multiple viewpoints, even when they seem to conflict, in the end offers a richer view of an era.
My other concern was the author's use of moral relativism. In my opinion, this justification is overly used to excuse Western European colonial behaviors, often based on the ahistorical belief that 'everyone' thought like that at the time and thinking/behaving oppressively was just normal. I assure you the people being oppressed were not happy to be oppressed and did not agree with the oppressors' acts of oppression, no matter the people or the era. Moral relativism effectively silences POC opinions on the treatment of their own ancestors.
I could gather a bunch of quotes from Black Trump supporters about how he shook their hands and treated them kindly. It will not change the fact that Trump has made deeply racist and white supremacist statements.
Thank you to Post Hypnotic Press Audiobooks and Netgalley for the opportunity to read/listen to and review this history book.

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This was fun!

Revisado: 06-01-23

sexy, tongue in cheek funny, 🔥 and set in a magical Latine land.
this was great in all the best ways.

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This was phenomenal

Revisado: 05-31-23

I loved every. single. Word.
I worried this might not be as good as the first book but I worried in vain.
This was every but as good🥰
I eagerly await Aurora & Apollo's story💃🏾

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What The Handmaid's Tale should be

Revisado: 12-25-22

This is phenomenal.
So much better than I was expecting or anticipating.
This is heavily feminist, unlike The Handmaid's Tale, which is white feminism.
well done.

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Whoa better than the first book!

Revisado: 11-14-22

Upon finishing this sequel, its clear that more installments are planned in this series.
With that said this installment isn't filler, the back story is more clearly revealed, the main character grows quite a bit and the resulting is as impressive, if not more, than the first book.
Mind blown

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This didn't work for me

Revisado: 09-22-22

I found Jenn annoying and obnoxious.
I found the incidents from the Hamptons on unbelievable.

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This is perfection!

Revisado: 07-19-22

I loved everything about this.
I think this will appeal to Historical Romance readers period but also to fans of shows like Bridgerton.
The foundation is laid for a series to rival Bridgerton and I couldn't be more excited.
Bring on Las Léonas!
I can't wait to see where the story goes next.
I'm hoping Apollo🥰

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Beautiful

Revisado: 01-01-22

I loved this story. What a beautiful representation of a Black af Future🥰
I also loved the nod to history and the truly alien aliens.

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