Justice and Her Brothers (The Justice Trilogy Book 1)
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Growing up as a non-white kid who read science-fiction and fantasy almost exclusively, finding books with characters who looked like me was not an easy task.
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The basic problem with writing genre fiction as a black writer, or for that matter, say releasing indie-rock as a black recording artist, is a basic one of numbers. African Americans make up a small percentage of the total American population, so anything produced by a black artist needs to either cross over to a non-black audience or appeal to a large, mainstream black audience or both, if it is to reach any numerically great level of popularity.
If, in a group of people, 1 of every 10 is black, and if, in that same group, 1 of every 10 is a science-fiction fan, then there will be 10 science-fiction fans, and 10 black readers, but only 1 black science-fiction fan. The series itself varies widely in tone and subject, despite having a consistent core cast of characters.
The Justice Trilogy
The series probably lost the science-fiction audience early in this first volume, due to its slow pace, realistic setting, and family oriented drama. Nor was the tale of a young, female, black protagonist in a functional, two-parent family likely to appeal to a crossover white audience, which typically demands from black literature titillating stories of abject poverty, family dysfunction and casual violence.
The rural setting was unlikely to be relatable to the urban black audience, and the psychic elements were doubtlessly off-putting to the pool of potential readers who remained. So this really was a case of a book aimed squarely and solely at that one reader in a hundred, and even for that one reader, there was a lot that was challenging between those two covers.
Arguably the strongest and most successful of the three books was the second in the series, Dustland.
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The mostly squarely identifiable as science-fiction of the three, it picks up where the first book left off, as Justice wrests control of the group of children and unites their gifts together, with the result that they travel through time and space into a strange post-apocalyptic Earth of the far future. I did not care for the overuse of "," throughout the three books - especially during dialogue sequences, however, this may have been intentional as part of the character building by the author.
Book three started off very sketchy for me -- I got the distinct feeling that the author was just "making stuff up" in an attempt to get the story back on track.
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The final s I had this series checked out as a trilogy on my tablet -- I'm not sure that I would have read all three had I been reading on paper. The final several chapters seemed like they were written by a different person, but I think the author just wrote them early in the writing process. Early in book three she had to figure out how to "get there. She left three openings, at the end of book 3, for sequels.
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Jul 23, Gloria Mccracken rated it it was ok. I read this trilogy long ago. I remember being a bit mystified by it then. When it came up as a "deal" on for my Kindle, I thought I'd give it another shot. Of course it does not help that this Kindle version reversed the order of the first two books "Dustland" first, then "Justice and her Brothers".
The Justice Trilogy: Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering
I remembered enough of the plot that I wasn't overly confused by this, but someone coming to it for the first time might find this even more puzzling than I did reading them I read this trilogy long ago. I remembered enough of the plot that I wasn't overly confused by this, but someone coming to it for the first time might find this even more puzzling than I did reading them in the right order.
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Your email address will not be published. Thomas one of the main character's brothers also comes across as legitimately scary in a way I would not have expected for a kid's book. Virginia Hamilton spins a story of sibling rivalry and extrasensory perception. Margaret marked it as to-read Jun 22, Justice and Her Brothers: I think I probably w I rated it a 4 because this trilogy along with Sylvia Engdahl's books blew my mind as a child and I read everything by this author that I could get my hands on as a kid.