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Given by Nandi Taylor is a book that is one of my favorites alongside Harry Potter, only in a racial diversity twist. I was completely thrown away by the magic runes that Yenni Aja-Nifemi ka Yirba has used so many times. My personal favorite magic rune that Yenni tends to use is the water rune, since it would really help to personally put out fires that are caused by lightning strikes–or in this case, dragons who are fighting against each other.
I personally loved how Yenni was strong at heart and mind, and that she is willing to fight for her family at any possible cost. However, the central conflict in her POV is whether she should marry Weysh, a dragon-shifter from a different nation in her world, and follow her heart, or marry the prince of a different tribe as part of an alliance against the wolves of different tribes seeking power for their own tribes. Meanwhile, Weysh, the dragon-shifter, is conflicted about how he should seek the approval of his Given, while also trying to improve himself so that he can respect her more.
I loved the setting of Given, a series of islands in the middle of a fantasy-inspired ocean, with the Yirba and the different African-inspired tribes on one side of the world, and the northern empires inspired by Spain, a blend of France and the United Kingdom, and Asia on the other side.
Unfortunately, the book Given by Nandi Taylor has yet to have a sequel to it, and that greatly upsets me when I don't have a sequel to the book that I love so much. It says that there is a potential for a sequel, but Nandi Taylor has yet to write it out and finish it. And with all of the racism still going on, I am deeply shocked and outraged ([spoiler] much like what Yenni does when she encounters the same kind of racial prejudice and discrimination toward her tribe and their customs from those who are teaching [or at least attempting to teach] her their magical ways in society) that the continuing racism has kept Nandi Taylor from finishing and publishing the sequel to her book Given.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Yenni and Weysh would deliver some kind of justice toward the racists in the nation that Weysh grew up in so that we can finally see how Yenni and Weysh would end up marrying each other after the war against their tribe is over, at least in the sequel. If racism would just end and the racists end up getting the kind of justice that they really deserve for promoting hate crimes toward the other ethnic minorities, I would finally get to read the sequel that I've been longing for since reading the book Given by Nandi Taylor. Until then, I would just have to read Given over and over again to see how Yenni ends up with Weysh.
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