J.K. Rowling’s new book isn’t actually about a transvestite serial killer

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JK Rowling's Troubled Blood: don't judge a book by a single review https://t.co/bx9sVK2xmS
- Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks) September 15, 2020

The Telegraph review chose to go big on [the character] Creed, describing him as “a transvestite serial killer” and asking “what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues” would make of it. But Creed is

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[cleanofslate]

honestly i couldn't give a shit what the book is about. i'm at bitch eating dry ass scones level with this woman. and why is she writing under a man's name anyway, if she has issues with trans folk?

[triviagogo29]

Lmao, for JK ROWLING, the richest most beloved most influential author in the world, to publish under a male name? None

[omni_videns]

It's not unreasonable to question if she would have grown to be as big as she is, had she published under her full name.

[theactualworst]

She new what she was doing and she can go fuck herself.

[xdecadentx]

Yeah, this is where I am. Even if this is true, what she's been saying recently colours this differently.

[teacoat]

With her track record she really just shouldn't be writing anything within that realm at all.

[just444]

besides everything else, this is 944 pages long

[xdecadentx]

I thought Midnight Sun being 800 pages was a slog.

[dorawa]

I made it about 300 of those and said peace

[cettefemme90]

Isn't it like a thriller/mystery? Aren't those usually tightly-plotted and like 300 pages long?

I love reading and I'm not sure I've even read a book nearly a thousand pages long before lol

[bttrsondaughter]

cool explanation, but she’s still transphobic and is using her massive platform to spread rhetoric that is actively harming trans people, so maybe the Guardian can cut us some slack for not giving her the benefit of the doubt on this one

[teenxwolf]

fr what is this gotcha moment? wow we thought someone who generates press from their transphobia was continuing to generate press from transphobia, u got us

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