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kittykatz96 's review for:
If I Stopped Haunting You
by Colby Wilkens
So found this one at a local tiny library and decided to pick it up knowing about the controversy of the author this is not a book I would feel comfortable supporting financially but I was curious as to the content of the book, and if it was worthy of the vitriol directed at it due to the authors horrid behavior.
After reading this book all I can say is yikes, knowing the fact the author faked being indigenous some of the content of the book is beyond problematic.
This would be a book I would find frustrating on a good day because the Pen, one of the leads who is a white passing indigenous author who can’t prove she’s indigenous, essentially gets away with assaulting the other lead because she thinks he’s a sell out and his books aren’t indigenous enough, accusing him of having it easy in publishing in spite of said character being a visible minority, and when her friend calls her out on the behavior towards the other lead she dismisses it because “you’re white. You don’t get it”. It’s just yikes after yikes for me. I would have found this questionable to begin with but in context it turns the whole book into something that honestly feels icky.
Please support actual indigenous authors and stories.
After reading this book all I can say is yikes, knowing the fact the author faked being indigenous some of the content of the book is beyond problematic.
This would be a book I would find frustrating on a good day because the Pen, one of the leads who is a white passing indigenous author who can’t prove she’s indigenous, essentially gets away with assaulting the other lead because she thinks he’s a sell out and his books aren’t indigenous enough, accusing him of having it easy in publishing in spite of said character being a visible minority, and when her friend calls her out on the behavior towards the other lead she dismisses it because “you’re white. You don’t get it”. It’s just yikes after yikes for me. I would have found this questionable to begin with but in context it turns the whole book into something that honestly feels icky.
Please support actual indigenous authors and stories.