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Originally Posted by Ravensknight
Lauren is a liar when she says that "a group of bullies who have wished horrible things, including rape and death, on me."
This DID NOT HAPPEN. Nor are there any quotes, requotes, screencaps, or other such evidence. And such things would have been requoted so that even if the originals were deleted there would be a record of said atrocities.
What there is proof of, is at least 2 instances where Lauren's fan threatened violence [hand in blender and hanging] against reviewers who gave her book 1 or 2stars. The originals have been deleted by GR for violating TOS, but the reviewers who were threatened requoted and screencapped the violent threats.
If anyone is interested in what actually happened, I've provided a link to the book in question.
Learning to Love
Read the reviews and the comments and decide for yourself. |
Just a point of order, suggesting someone put his/her hand in a blender is not a violent threat. It's a florid way of saying, "Why don't you F*** off!"
I looked through some of this, but it's difficult to see what's what. So many comments have been deleted. I think there was also something along the lines of, "Go hang yourself!" I can't actually find that one, but just more of the same - abuse rather than threats. And the abuse seems well and truly to be flying in both directions in this case regardless of where it started.
Not defending the author in this case. I can't really see any of what she's claiming either except for a weird 2 star review from someone who clearly hadn't read the book. I too think it's absurd to give a review for something you haven't read, but it's really not worth get bent out of shape over and as soon as you do on a platform like Goodreads, you're going to be in serious damage control from that point forward. Better to let it slide and hope that real reviews will make up for it later.
Anyway, it just looks like a normal day in Goodreads.