Almost as soon as the book’s release was announced, it was met with fierce backlash. A now-viral Twitter exchange in 2017 saw book bloggers rejecting review requests, with one describing the book as a “forbidden romance between a Black woman who is a slave and the White man who owns her” [24†L9-L11]. The authors of the book later clarified that the characters were both Caucasian and that the romance was consensual, but the initial damage was done.
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