Pamela Garland

This book is like a documentary of the earth’s continents situated in space. The storyline focuses on Xelena’s tragedies and traumas without victories including making her seem crazy. I struggled with the fact that the author give white characters “the Pures” as the almighty dominant culture, while the Blues, purples and browns were slaves, impoverished, living in squalor, sick and all without hope. In a space called Divercity with a drug for a disease called insoolant. Where is the imagination? The original planet had a female powerful leader that was called a witch but her power and purpose was immediately ended by a Pure, without ever understanding the planet. The stereotypical famous athlete’s were all Blues (black) with a gift of strength and talent but never thrived, the great entertainer was a blue with tattoos. The big mob boss was another blue succeeding by controlling the drug market only as far as the Pures allowed. I hated that I read this entire book and no one redemptive content. On the last page the title character becomes a dragon. What the hell. Where is the character development the back and forth play on empathy for all characters, this book was a lot of flawed work in 400+ pages that left me as an accomplished black woman feeling like this young author cherishes women being raped, owned, naked, killed, and never happy or accomplished.