Hi all! I’m currently seeking an authenticity reader for a Japanese American character in a contemporary YA. If anyone has a recommendation, that would be greatly appreciated!

MOANA x SHADOW & BONE

To save her uncle, Keahi must interfere with the King’s plans to restore his kingdom’s power—except the throne was never his to claim, & the island only answers to one: the girl with a heart of fire

🌋 Hawaiian folklore
🌌 sentient island
🌊 found family

#DVPit #YA #F #NHPI

YA Romantasy SoC x Crimson Moth

A teenage pickpocket is recruited as a spy to thwart a plot to steal the King’s dragons—except the leader of the thieving crew is her former best friend, and she’s falling for him

🐉 friends to enemies to lovers
🐉 betrayal angst
🐉 found family

#dvpit #YA #F #DIS

BLACK MIRROR X RED RISING

Step 1: Infiltrate the empire’s army to break your aunt out of prison

Step 2: Survive their brutal training camps

Step 3: Fight the telepathic mind-bond with the heir of that empire before she takes control of your body and will

#DVPit #SFF #YA #NA #SF

A black and white illustration done in the styles of Alphonse Mucha and Bon Orthwick. On the left is Beatrice Tamayo, a dark-haird teenage girl in a school uniform levitating an unbitten apple. On the right is Bianca Sacramore, her hair billowing up above her, levitating an apple with a single bite out of it. Around each girl is an ornate frame with smaller illustrations, including celestial elements and vintage books.

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH

16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend.

📚 Magical dark academia
🇵🇭 Biracial FMC
🖤 Rivals-to-lovers
🗡️ Dueling secret societies
📖 Sentient evil library

#DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle. First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals. Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye. Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

✨mecha dragons
🪐disabled protagonist
💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding
🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF
🌌epic space opera
🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine!

#DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT