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Yoana
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Well I jus got completely spoiled by somebody's username (which was the killer's name AND online persona) and I've got to say this sucks big time. The book may be bloated, rambly, badly written at times, with zero subtext and an inept romance storyline; the author's politics may be ignorant and harmful, but it's still a murder mystery and it's the only kind of book where a spoiler basically takes all the fun out.
— Sep 22, 2022 06:17AM
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Yoana
is on page 560 of 1446
As in Lethal White, here too JKR sin't quite brave enough to call working-class leftists useless and lazy so she contrives to depict them as hapless victims of malicious middle-class champagne commies who take advantage of their struggles. Which is no less insulting but she doesn't seem to understand that. The resut is that almost all working-class people in her novels are curiously apolitical
— Sep 22, 2022 06:05AM
Yoana
is on page 560 of 1446
The victim seems to be a stand-in for JKR herself. Her troubles with the HP fandom too started when she sued a fan-created offshoot (a HP encyclopaedia) for copyright infringement - like Ledwell's with her fandom after she dissed a fan-created game based on her comic.
— Sep 22, 2022 04:55AM
Yoana
is on page 457 of 1446
The deploration of online mobs would have sounded more genuine if JKR's own tweets hadn't been used to start real ones against trans people and activists on Twitter
— Sep 19, 2022 12:34AM
Yoana
is on page 338 of 1446
JKR is doing her old schtick of reducing her opponents' arguments to absurdity (or picking only the most overtly ridiculous outliers) and going, well, look how extreme and irrational they are. How brave, to expose them in her book sold in the millions when they don't have anything even remotely resembling a similar platform to respond
— Sep 15, 2022 12:47AM
Yoana
is on page 315 of 1446
I saw complaints that ppl don't want to read tweets or online interaction simulations in a novel but I'm loving this. I'm enjoying it much more than any of the previous ones so far. I'm a sucker for cyberdetecting - it's an environment that naturally lends itself to mystery and consequently there's so much more guesswork involved
— Sep 14, 2022 12:07AM
Yoana
is on page 237 of 1446
As usual, intensely readable. But I don't understand why Robin needs to be pitted against a different woman in each instalment, so she can shine in comparison. It's so offputting, and it doesn't work in her favour at all.
— Sep 12, 2022 02:41AM
Yoana
is on page 198 of 1446
And btw since this book is 99% politics, JKR's fans won't be able to deflect discussion of her politics in reviews by insisting we stick to the story and leave politics aside. Her politics is the story here.
— Sep 10, 2022 01:24AM
Yoana
is on page 198 of 1446
I was wrong, she isn't equating right-wing extremism with the progressive left's online discourse; she's saying the right-wing extremists are using the deluded extreme leftists to turn progressives against each other. I think she's using the word "progressive" wrong if she counts hersefl among them.
— Sep 10, 2022 01:23AM
Yoana
is on page 177 of 1446
JKR is seriously equating murderous religious fanaticism (of the kind that got the Charlie Hebdo staff murdered and Salman Rushdie stabbed) to chronically online cultural leftists. The effect is a cringey "woe is me" whine
— Sep 08, 2022 01:03AM
