More like JK Trolling, amiright? JK Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter series and now pens the Cormoran Strike detective novels under the pen name Robert Galbraith, has incorporated a new element into her latest instalment that anyone familiar with her recent work will recognize: internet backlash.
Rowling has been one of the most vocal and visible, let’s say, critics of transgender rights, lending her money and her celebrity to groups that make the world less safe for trans people and in the process, receiving death and rape threats herself. A lose-lose situation for all. And many have pointed out that her fiction isn’t far removed from her own politics; in one Galbraith novel, the killer is a cis man who dresses like a woman when he commits his crimes.
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But that’s not what’s gotten people talking this time. No, this is a little pettier. In The Black Ink Heart, Rowling’s latest, one murder victim is a YouTube-based animator named Edie whose work is accused of being problematic by the web horde. Mob mentality takes over. She receives threats and is eventually stabbed to death in a cemetery. Oh, and the book is long.
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