A review by diletto_amanda
Fire, Fury, Faith by N.D. Jones
4.0
I loved this book! I 100% grabbed it because it's described as an African Paranormal Romance by a BIPOC author. Honestly YES please!
N.D. Jones absolutely kills it here. She manages to write a beautiful love story in such a short amount of pages. The entire time I just kept thinking, "we really need more books that capture people of color as sexy." Sure, we can argue that there's sexy BIPOC book characters, but too often, it seems that inclusivity in books means a racially ambiguous character. Issa and Serwa are sexy and African. No questions, no ambiguity, and they are beautiful for it.
After I finished this book, I read that her desire is to see more fantasy novels with positive, sexy and three dimensional African American characters, so she took it upon herself to write them. So I'd say she hit that nail right on the head here!!!
I am definitely impressed by the depth of this book despite how short it is, but the pacing was so fast at certain points. I absolutely get it. I know we would have missed some of this lovely story if it wasn't paced so fast, but most of the book I wanted just a little more. Regardless, it was still beautiful.
*I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
N.D. Jones absolutely kills it here. She manages to write a beautiful love story in such a short amount of pages. The entire time I just kept thinking, "we really need more books that capture people of color as sexy." Sure, we can argue that there's sexy BIPOC book characters, but too often, it seems that inclusivity in books means a racially ambiguous character. Issa and Serwa are sexy and African. No questions, no ambiguity, and they are beautiful for it.
After I finished this book, I read that her desire is to see more fantasy novels with positive, sexy and three dimensional African American characters, so she took it upon herself to write them. So I'd say she hit that nail right on the head here!!!
I am definitely impressed by the depth of this book despite how short it is, but the pacing was so fast at certain points. I absolutely get it. I know we would have missed some of this lovely story if it wasn't paced so fast, but most of the book I wanted just a little more. Regardless, it was still beautiful.
*I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.