She posts about other things. But nobody is screenshotting and seething over updates about the latest Strike book.
Speaking of, I recently began reading her Cormorant Strike novels. I know some people here only like her for her tranny takes, but I’m a genuine fan, and I’ve really been enjoying them. She’s always had a workmanlike quality to her writing that served her well in children’s books and serves her well in crime fiction. Very straightforward, I think the worst criticisms I can think of is she does tend to excessive description at times. One thing she’s very good at is coming up with unique, colorful characters, and developing them well. She’s not a writer where every character just feels like a mouthpiece for herself, they’re all written with a distinct voice.
I can see how snowflakes with poor “media literacy” would be offended by them. It’s funny because the main character Strike is an ugly, fat, disabled vet, you’d think that kinda thing would be right up their alley. But he still fucks, maybe that’s why? I’m only two books in but I didn’t find anything bad in the first one, I guess there’s a minor character who’s a black girl chav that cracked me up because she sounded exactly like a bunch of the cows we have on the site. The second book is more obviously where the trannies started taking notice, the central victim character is a gross author obsessed with sex, gore, and gender identity, but still, i think it was incidental, not purposely targeting trannies. It’s buffalo bill all over again. But I can’t wait to get to the later installments, after she peaked and began giving no fucks.
This is all to say, the Strike books are good, solid entertainment, and anyone who says stuff like “JKR is not a good writer, she got lucky with Harry Potter and she’s coasted off that ever since” is simply a case of sour grapes. I’d love to hear more about the controversy over the books since at the time, I wasn’t yet peaked. I remember hearing stuff and thinking “JKR did/said that? Seems sus,” but I didn’t investigate and just believed it.
Also, I was originally just going to check them out of the library, but after reading the first one decided to buy them all. So nyeh, trannies, suck on it, I’m giving the TERF billionaire more money and power and you can’t stop me.
