Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-32987979-20190425053631

I don't think race is a thing in the Elvin world. Only Sophie sees the Songs as "Asian" Because she loved with humans. But Elves don't seem to classify people as Polynesian, Filipino, Latino, Caucasian etc. It's just what the color of their skin happen to be like and what their features are like. Tam, Linh and their parents aren't Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese. They're just Elvin. However, since Sophie is a genius in the human world, she really should know the difference between Korean K-Pop and Japanese anime.

Also, we don't even know if elves physically CAN be LGBTQ+. That's not homophobic, that's just the way their species is. I GUESS you could argue that the species in just the way the author writes it, but I honestly think you're being a little nitpicky. Do you know how many other book series (or any other series in general) don't have LGBTQ+ characters? I'm not at all against Shannon adding these characters, but I don't think that we should get all bent out of shape because she hasn't.