Wednesday, January 22, 2014
A Review of Lingering Echoes by Erica Kiefer
When I started Lingering Echoes, it seemed like a fine story: young girl harboring a guilty past, a broody young man with a dark past if his own. Teen angst, but not overdone. Unfortunately, at about 3/4 of the way through, the author shows stunningly bad judgement by making all of the "bad guys" non-white, pointing it out over and over, and even going so far as to name one of the characters "ethnic guy". Borderline (or maybe crossing the border) racist at best. All of the good guys are white, as well, and the story behind Damian's past is absurd. It seemed such a sharp detour from where it started, that I was actually confused. Also, did Damian really have to rescue Allie in the potential rape scene? Couldn't the author have figured out how to have Allie rescue herself from that ridiculously absurd situation? Too bad, it started out pretty good, but ended up a hot mess.
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I tried to post a comment earlier, but it doesn't look like it went through. I know it is hard to read tone when it comes to comments, especially from people you don't know. Please know that this comment is with an even tone, and my point of commenting is to give you a few ideas to think about concerning your thoughts on the book being racist or borderline racist. I am pretty sensitive when it comes to people being accused of being racist. There are a lot of things you should think about before such an accusation should be make. Some things you could think about concerning the author herself are 1. Does she herself have colored skin? 2. Where did she grow up? What kind of diversity was around her? Just something to think about. I think that there are a lot of people out there who are so easily offended and are just waiting for something that they can pounce on. I daresay most people who have read this book, ever even thought about the book being borderline racist.
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