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What it is, however, is a series where white people are called "Pearls" and blacks are called "Coals," the white female lead starts off severely uncomfortable around black people (to the point of using slurs like "haughty Coal" in inner monologue), white people often wear blackface to "pass," the white lead is threatened with rape at the hands of a giant black man, and the love story is described as a "Beauty and the Beast" fable where the black love interest literally turns into a beast thanks to genetic engineering.

The series is ostensibly a fable about the foolishness of racism, set in a world where an environmental catastrophe has left melanin content as a prized thing, with blacks on top and whites on the bottom, with an interracial romance to drive home the point.

At one point, the reader is told about a minstrel show wherein the performers wear " white face".

Blackface: Because of the prejudice against them, the Pearls resort to wearing blackface in public in order to try and fit in.

Also, it's highly unlikely that an Ecuadorian tribe is going to be worshiping gods from an ancient Mexican and Central American nation.

Artistic License – Religion: The Huaorani tribe is shown worshiping warped versions of the Aztec gods (see Sadly Mythtaken below), when in real life the Huaorani practiced shamanism and animism rather than worshiping specific deities.

While it's true that darker skin does give increased protection from the sun, the author tends to treat it as a blanket immunity, which is an unfortunate misconception that in real life has lead to preventable deaths when cancer isn't recognized as early in dark-skinned people as it is in people with light skin. Artistic License – Biology: In the post-apocalyptic world in which the books take place, the Coals have become the majority because they have more melanin, and thus have more resistance to the sun, and an innate resistance to skin cancer ("the heat").Albinos Are Freaks: "Cottons" (the term for albinos) are threatened with being killed on sight in this dystopian future.

After the End: A massive solar flare has caused the collapse of civilization.The second book, Adapting Eden, was published in 2013. The first book in the series, Revealing Eden, was published in 2012. Save The Pearls is a two-book young-adult series written by American author Victoria Foyt, about a post-apocalyptic dystopian future in which black people have taken over and white people are a persecuted minority.