I WTFed at that too when I read it. Both because she said "African-American" (I think that's the ONLY place in the books that description is used for Cassie) and because she was implying that it's some deep flaw that Jake would have to "overlook."
Cassie did seem to be a bit insecure sometimes over whether Jake liked her based on superficial factors, like when she was fretting about what he would think about her in a bathing suit, but I don't think this is something she would wonder about. If this was earlier in the series I'd have thought it was a poorly written attempt to throw in physical descriptions, but this is Megamorphs 4 for crap's sake.
Other than this glitch, I seriously thought the series did a pretty good job pretty much making race a so-what subject unless it was relevant (like how Cassie got treated by the Princeton student in Megamorphs 3). When stuff like this happens it's all the more glaring because the author is usually pretty good at it. I'd blame a ghostwriter but I thought all the Megamorphs were written by K.A.
Cassie did seem to be a bit insecure sometimes over whether Jake liked her based on superficial factors, like when she was fretting about what he would think about her in a bathing suit, but I don't think this is something she would wonder about. If this was earlier in the series I'd have thought it was a poorly written attempt to throw in physical descriptions, but this is Megamorphs 4 for crap's sake.
Other than this glitch, I seriously thought the series did a pretty good job pretty much making race a so-what subject unless it was relevant (like how Cassie got treated by the Princeton student in Megamorphs 3). When stuff like this happens it's all the more glaring because the author is usually pretty good at it. I'd blame a ghostwriter but I thought all the Megamorphs were written by K.A.
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