You mentioned a disappointing ending--you still think the series is worth reading for me as an adult despite that ending?
she doesn't take the easy out of having some of her white characters express views that would make them more sympathetic to a 21st-century audience (which is what a lot of authors of historical fiction do, which always feels like a cop out to me
Yes. And it's important that Hannibal, the one white character who can move between the two worlds, is on the outskirts of society and mired in poverty. No one else has that freedom, and he has it specifically because he's poor and marginal.
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she doesn't take the easy out of having some of her white characters express views that would make them more sympathetic to a 21st-century audience (which is what a lot of authors of historical fiction do, which always feels like a cop out to me
Yes. And it's important that Hannibal, the one white character who can move between the two worlds, is on the outskirts of society and mired in poverty. No one else has that freedom, and he has it specifically because he's poor and marginal.