Tag: book review

Book Review: ‘The Age of Deer’ Explores History, Myth & Imagination

The buck in question boasted an impossible 29 points, and his home range was a cemetery. He was often seen as a fearsome, otherworldly silhouette in the gloaming, his crown a forest unto itself. Navigating the misty maze of headstones, bending his heavy crown beneath the bony branches of the magnolias, they say he stepped […]

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White Author Caught ‘Review Bombing’ Books By People Of Color Claims She’s Not Racist, Blames Autism

NewsOne Featured Video Last December, we reported the story of Cait Corrain, a debut author who threw away her bag like no one before by creating several fake Goodreads accounts, which she used to “review bomb” other new authors while up-voting her own book, Crown of Starlight—until she got caught. Not only did internet sleuths […]

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Publisher Dumps White Author For ‘Review Bombing’ Competing Books Written By People Of Color

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Mondadori Portfolio / Getty So, here’s a movie idea about Karens: (There’s already a Karen movie, but this one will be better than that one.) A white woman writes a book about—I don’t know—something. The first-time author finds a major publisher, gets positive reviews on her work and is all set […]

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