Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher for purposes of providing an honest review.
Over the last few weeks, I've read quite a few #OwnVoices high fantasies by authors of colour, inspired by non-Western cultures, and I have been loving them! There have been quite a few that have been published over the last few years - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi*, Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi, City of Brass by S. A. Chakroborty*, Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan*, Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean*, Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri*, Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa*, and many more - which is awesome for authors of colour; they finally get to tell their stories and have them sold. Diverse high fantasy is finally having it's moment, and it's about time. However, it does make me wonder, is it only a moment?
Bear with me, this is going to be a long one. Today, I want to talk about something I feel is incredibly important; how readers of UKYA & MG should support our authors of colour. When it comes to diversity, although the US still has quite a way to go, the UK is very far behind. A lot of the diverse books published in the UK? They're books written by US authors. In 2017, CLPE launched a study, 
