Re reading is one of the best parts of reading. Yes the same things happen but the same things happen. It's comfortable like a cozy sweatshirt and sometimes that's exactly what you need. I'd say start it over and if you aren't enjoying it then move to the next but there's nothing wrong with rereading something you loved. Reading is for fun it's not a competition.

It's pretty simple. Most authors and sci-fi and fantasy for the past 70 years have been white and default white characters. However, you can go looking and find plenty of authors who write wonderful stories with characters of all races. Octavia Butler has wonderful stories featuring majority black characters, some sci-fi, some post-apocalyptic America, not sure about fantasy for her.

It is good we are seeing some more movement in that area in more modern fantasy and sci-fi. And it's one of the reasons I think it's great to see fantasy works that are brought to television using more multi-racial casts to make the world more accessible for more people.

It's the same reason a lot of books have mostly male characters. If an author isn't being thoughtful about character creation they just go to their default and white men have dominated the industry for 70 years and their default has been white men. I don't like calling it racist as I don't think it's intentional I think it's just thoughtless