#waylan had a lot of potential but only really got interesting once he was all in on the crim lifestyle and the aforementioned yellowface is

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#1/ #2/ #personal #booksalt #saltblogging #sometimes i think about how soc was one of the biggest recent ya books #and how baked into a key element of the end is like magic yellowface plastic surgery #like straight up the disasterous characterization of kuwei and the way that plot is handled was one of the reasons i took #a million years to finish the second book #'this character has a crush on another boy and the boy that boy likes has had #his face magically made to look like the asian first boy so he takes advantage to kiss the second boy without his consent' #like truly its wild how so many elements of the book can be so good and geared to my specific interests and still hold no rereading interest #inej and kaz were great jesper was fun but the plot about him having a crush on kaz was dumb but otherwise love his vibes #waylan had a lot of potential but only really got interesting once he was all in on the crim lifestyle and the aforementioned yellowface is #of course a big yikes #nina and matthias. i understand the role of their characters but. they didnt need so much focus #kuwei truly was never given a single trait other than mean petty griping and the aforementioned nonconsensual kiss #and that is such an active choice by the author like #its six of crows heres the seventh i give no traits to only weird racializing semi homophobic stuff oh wait wdym no one makes content of him #this is another book that also suffered from 'i am giving every character a viewpoint chapter' and its simply a pet peeve of mine #anyways kiki strike *handshake emoji* six of crows #books i like that have weirdly unremarked upon yellowface that the narrative goes out of its way to justify as being really accurate #also i know there is headcanons and i think word of god comments from bardugo about kaz being asian or picturing him that way #and its fascinating how i can totally see that great headcanon but. it does not once make its way into the plot #and everyone else gets clear racial distinctions that the audience clearly recieved #but kaz just got generic dark haired white boy designation bc coughcough thats how hes written