Then on page 130, Paloma tells Daire that years ago, Alejandro (see next paragraph) "was called back to Brazil" for a family emergency, suggesting the two are from Brazil. On page 68, "she's a living picture of Old World, Latina hospitality." Daire sees her at Django's grave "murmuring in her native Spanish" (p. I'm not altogether sure about Paloma's identity. Paloma Santos is Daire's grandmother (mother of Django). Evil people, ya' know! They do wicked things like decapitation to good guys like Django. He died before Jennica was born, but he didn't just die. Until this phone call, Paloma has not been part of her life.ĭjango Santos was Daire's father. But out of the blue, her father's mother (Paloma) calls them in Morocco and convinces Daire's mother (Jennica) to bring Daire to "Enchantment, New Mexico" to live with-and be healed-by Paloma. There are threats to institutionalize her. She has a major incident in Morocco (her mom does make up for Hollywood movies and she's with her mom in Morocco). She's also been seeing glowing people (while she's awake) ever since she turned 16. She's sixteen years old and has been having dreams of a hot guy with glossy black hair who morphs into a scary hot guy with glossy black hair. Let's meet the characters in Alyson Noel's Fated.ĭaire Lyons/Santos is the main character (that's her on the cover). People who feel bad for the author and all her hard work will be irate at my tweets. Its hard to take Noel's Fated seriously! I know I'll get some flack for being snarky. If you follow me on Twitter ( you may have seen my snarky tweets about this book. The "any book will do" stance-when the depictions of American Indians are stereotypical, biased, or inaccurate-is just a repeat of colonization where colonizers gaze upon American Indians, lusting for bodies. The people who want to "honor" us are people who mean well they're people with good intentions.īut heck! How long is ignorance and stereotyping borne of good intentions going to go on?! I guess it'll continue as long as there is a market for stories with hunky "Native American" guys with high cheekbones, smooth brown skin, and long, glossy black hair.īut it will also continue as long as "any book will do, just as long as they're reading" is the stance about reading. Instead of factual knowledge of who we are, they embrace romantic ideas of us as warriors and shamans with feathers and drums. What I mean by "people who honor Native people with mascots" means people with little substantive knowledge about Native people.
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