![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So-called cancellation isn’t always permanent in the wider world.īlood Heir is not the only book to have run into the wood chipper of “YA Twitter,” the small but influential community of largely adult online readers who can make or break a book’s fortunes-or at least its online reputation-long before it is available to most readers. In January, Zhao abruptly issued a statement apologizing for the “pain” her book had caused and asked her publisher to cancel its publication. That was before the novel came under a tidal wave of criticism from early readers who saw in the book an offensive likeness of American slavery and black oppression. ![]() Blood Heir, the first novel in the series, was scheduled to publish next month. Her story is set in a fictional empire with an enslaved underclass called Affinites protagonist Princess Anastacya Mikhailov lives in hiding because of her similarity to the Affinites, and the plot unspools from there. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, (HBO) Max, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in Juneįirst-time novelist Amélie Wen Zhao reportedly received a six-figure advance for her trilogy of young-adult novels, which she sold last year to a Penguin Random House imprint. The Book That Crowned Stephen King Is Now a Movie. In Defense of Ted Lasso, the Show Everyone Now Loves to HateĮvery Perfect Little Detail From Kim Cattrall’s Sex and the City Announcement ![]()
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