Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-71.193.201.85-20200208165522

I just read every single comment from top to bottom. At the beginning I was just reading it because I love reading bad reviews for books that I like and then laughing at how stupid they are, but I admit that the further I read the more I actually started to lean to the other side of the argument. I also always thought it strange that the Song family could somehow still be 100% Asian when I was reading the series, without mixing them with any other skin tone at one point or another. The sanctuary is messed up. Pre-humans, around one species in every million species went extinct every year. It was just natural. Post-human, that rate has picked up A LOT, true, but the point is that species extinction is completely natural and therefor the elves are actually in the wrong by trying to preserve species that should not be preserved. It would tilt the entire food chain off its axis. Also, I never understood how the elves cities could remain hidden when they take up so much room. Anyways, who actually even lives in shangrila? It seems like all the elves have these huge private estates that they can only reach by light leaping, and so where does the planet find the surface area to fit all of that in? Population is also something that I’ve been mulling over. How would it work? If elves rarely died, wouldn’t hundreds of elves add to their population one year, and then even more the next. The relationship would be nonlinear. Every year there would be more elves to give birth, so every year more elves would be born. Humans don’t have infinite lifespans, but our population is still growing fast as well. How much faster would it be for the elves? Same with economy. I know that I definitely would not choose to work if I already had billions of dollars when I was born. For the absence of LGBTQ+ in the series, I admit that I have read a lot of middle readers books without this, but in this book particularly I feel that it was strange that it was not addressed. Shouldn’t the author touch up on weather same sex marriage is or is not frowned upon by the elves society? I am panromantic/gynosexual, and I love reading books that represent this community. Every book, SM adds TOO MANY new side characters. Are you telling me that it would be too hard to not make a single one of them LGBTQ+? Seriously? Lack of racial diversity is also strange. If race doesn’t exist, then the match lists shouldn’t be biased against biracial couples. There are actually more black humans than there are white humans in the world, so why isn’t this the same for elves? Or rather, why isn’t everyone a blend of every race the earth has to offer. If the elves have been around long enough to stop every species that has ever existed from going extinct, then billions of years after their creation, every elf should be a mix between every skin tone. How in the world did the Vacker family the Sencen family and the Disney family, along with many many others, remain pure white if every time they marry, there is a more than 75% chance that they would marry someone of a different race? This I simply do not understand. To paraphrase, I love the series for its overall story, not for its logic or diversity or anything else that I wish SM had just considered including.