When the neighborhood in which Sydney Green was born and raised begins to change at a rapid fire pace, she does all she can think to do to try to hold onto her past and keep the gentrification from spreading.
This will help to cast a wider net than what you may have been reading in the genre. While I’m focusing specifically on Black authors here, we have numerous articles that highlight other authors of color. Especially when it comes from people who call or like to think of themselves as allies.īelow is a handful of books that fit either one or both of these genres. And to say otherwise comes across as belittling. However, I would never say a book about scary clowns wasn’t horror just because that’s not my phobia. A particular scenario being mild for one part of the community doesn’t negate the fact that for others it is terrifying.Ĭlowns do not scare or bother me on the level that they affect others. It’s divisive and harmful for a books by an author of color to not be categorized as the genre that they clearly are. Readers shouldn’t have a narrow way of thinking. I can actually see myself in most of situations, or I have been in them. And it’s terrible.īooks written by authors of color resonate more with me. Even worse is that they have to fight to get classified as that genre. But they do not get the same publicity that books written by white authors have. There have been amazing books that have come out in both genres over the years. These genres are one area where Black and other PoC authors still have to fight to be heard. By the definition alone those tend to be exceedingly mild in violence and, by extension, so does the thriller aspect of it. And by that I mean most thrillers have a mystery threaded through them, but not all mysteries are thrillers. Thrillers and mysteries aren’t one and the same, although they can sometimes overlap.
There goes my dream of being a detective. Not sure how that works out, but it happens. Either I have the motive right or suspect wrong, or vice versa. Personally, I almost never try to solve these anymore because I’m never all the way right. This feeling is something that occasionally overlaps with mysteries. Exhilaration from being right and more so when I’m wrong. The suspension of knowing what may come next. A heightened feeling of anxiety I get from reading the situations that the characters are in. I love the rush of adrenaline that I get from reading a good thriller.
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