Down Here in the Warmth Liveblog

Gratuitous use of the N word from a writer that uses multiple sock puppet accounts to promote his book on twitter and likes tweets about how oppressed white people are. #JustSaying

Chapter 2 literally like "here's every black stereotype being presented completely unironically"

"He's not normally racist he has a Black girlfriend! He's just been pushed because Black people bad"

Gestures at literally everything we have heard of this guy and on top of that we refer to her being Black as "her background"

"everyone was confused by them BUT NOT BECAUSE ONE WAS BLACK AND THE OTHER WAS WHITE"

literally who is going to care if a pair of roommates don't have the same skin colour

Oh good he's also abusive and she had to save him from his alcoholism, what a charming deuteragonist this prick is

Oh of course the adopted child is the problem child turned arsonist/murderer

We can't have any stereotype go unturned

"My father defended a Black man and was shocked when racists were racist to him! My dad thought himself a hero!"

This is the issue. The white man thinking himself a hero to black people is the problem.

Let's add "getting a job is easy; just walk up and ask for one!"

They really think racism ended when Obama was elected and think that the only racism left is white supremacy

Dear God honey just say your parents glorified the 60s your entire childhood

Writer, who is surely name searching their book, you are aware Nixon won the presidency right?

Since the writer has this scene of the Evil Black People Gunning Down The Innocent Cops That Are Just Doing Their Job

Did you know that you can actually find the statistics of how many cops died in the line of duty this year?

It even tells you the cause of death.

Here's a fun little thing

On the list of officers killed by gunfire there is exactly 0 in New York.

and country wide, 0 officers were killed by gunfire in relation to a Black Lives Matter protest.

The white savior complex is strong in this one

We've suddenly gone from past tense to present tense with no clear reason why

Im on chapter 15 of 30 but only 33% of the way through

this is a terrible sign

Pick what tense you are writing in

PICK WHAT TENSE YOU ARE WRITING IN

Why are you acting like a blackout is a big deal it doesn't fucking matter it's New York what's a blackout gonna do? last 5 minutes till someone kicks the generator?

Why doesn't this author know how streetlights work

STOP JUMPING TO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS I DONT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ANY OF THESE SCENES

What the fuck, what the actual fuck are you saying hire a Fucking editor

Do you think this was the first draft

Do you think any editing happened

Fun Fact, so far the mentions of 9/11 work out at an average of every 25 pages!

Entire of chapter 20 is fluff; remove it in the next draft

Going back to my previous thread of reactions

He also clearly has no idea about the adoption system literally none not a clue

From page 200 onwards, this Euel Arden forgot to delete his plot outline notes before sending this to the publishers

This is how you know no one proofread this book

I label thee hippie

To summarise a long thread of reactions;

This book is written terribly. The grammar is atrocious, the writing doesn't flow, perspective flips mid paragraph, the author left their plot outline in the manuscript, there are spelling errors, the story doesn't even make sense.

On top of that; it's racist. Every Black character in the book is a racist stereotype. The main characters are racist behind a thin veil of "well I'd date a Black woman".

The author has clearly never set foot in a big city, has no idea how they operate or what streetlamps are.

They do everything in their power to demonise Black people at Black Lives Matter protests. They glorify the 60s as the time of peaceful revolution despite the entire Nixon presidency. They clearly refuse to listen to Black people on matters of racism.

White supremacy is treated as a thing that is brought about by basement dwellers and the mentally ill. They believe that it's a problem that will be fixed by the cops. They have completely ignored the reality of 2020 when writing this book.

They also don't know mobile phones can access the internet and think you'll be able to see the Milky Way from on top of a high rise in New York City while there are fires all around you.