[attanilifardy]

Yeah, I think that Katniss is white, mostly because her sister is described as having blonde or at least fair hair; she just has a darker skin tone (Katniss is described as having "olive skin" I think). Since Katniss is described as being representative of many of the people in her district, they are probably white to. That said, if they had cast a black or mixed-race actress as Katniss, that would have been cool, and it could have worked, even taking her mother and Prim's coloring into consideration, and the people of District 12 could be mixed race.

Re: Jaclyn Dolamore's "Magic Under Glass", I spent about a year wanting to read that novel after hearing about the controversy surrounding the cover, because it sounded like such a cool idea. I finally was able to ILL it and the result was so disappointing. Besides just being poorly written, filled with Bronte-esque brooding male characters, and suffering from a general undeveloped world where things happened for no reason other than it sounded awesome (I still don't understand why trouser girls were called trousers girls and why they wore trousers), I also felt it was filled with gross exoticism.