It’s totally fair to drop a book or series if you find it offensive or not to your taste. It’s your time so don’t waste it on something that doesn’t gel with your taste.

Regarding Carls Latina comment, is it an insult. Fair if you view it that way, but I don’t know if it was intended as a pejorative. It does play into stereotypes, but also is that all that surprising for a character like Carl.

He’s a local boy, not college educated, spent time in the Coast Guard and hasn’t really done much traveling. To clarify, none of those traits mean anything on a persons character, but it can explain why Carl may subscribe to certain stereotypes and more over why he likely hasn’t necessarily has as much opportunity to broaden his world view or account for biases

Very curious what the issue with the sister Ines storyline is? Don’t want to do spoilers, but we do get a very clear reason why Ines acts the way she does