live slow; die whenever

OK, speaking of terrible YA, what the fuck is this, exactly?  It’s set in yet another dystopian future, where I suppose the sun’s radiation has become so intense that white people can’t even go outside or something?  And the social hierarchy privileges people with melanin over people without?  And black people are called Coals while white people are called Pearls (there’s so much wrong with that ONE SENTENCE, ONE ASPECT of this thing.  Like, whites are the rare and precious gem despite being the bottom of the hierarchy?  And ‘Coal’ is the name for dark-skinned people??  WHAT???) AND PEARLS CONSTANTLY WEAR BLACK FACE?

What the actual fuck is this.  This is the worst.  This is worse than a room full of Edward Cullens; an ocean of Christian Greys and Bella Swans and whatever the fuck she was renamed for Fifty Shades.  This is absolutely the most vile premise for a YA book that I’ve seen anywhere, and I read Swoon twice, OK.  

I can’t even process this coherently; I’m just so shocked that it exists.  And that people have bought it.  And liked it.