The book, published this April by Red Oak Publishing, LLC, was written by Szeker, a popular BookTok content creator herself, and is listed as an 'adult dystopian romance set in an asylum.' Readers were outraged by a transgender character called Charlotte who pays to hire a child sex slave, who later turns out to be her own son. Published: 22:28 BST, 21 April 2022 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 21 April 2022Ī woke TikTok mob forced a young adult fiction author to change her published debut novel after she failed to provide a trigger warning regarding a transgender pedophile character.Īuthor Brandi Szeker is facing intense backlash from 'BookTok'- the subcommunity on the app TikTok focused on books and literature- over her latest novel The Pawn and the Puppet over claims it is transphobic.
In response to the backlash Szeker posted a series of TikToks profusely apologizing for the characterization of Charlette and lack of trigger warnings.Readers also took issue with the supposed transphobic representation of a trans character named Charlotte.But the book has rubbed some BookTokers the wrong way over the lack of trigger warnings for things such as grooming of minors, racism and incest.The book, intended for readers ages 18 and older, contains a lengthy trigger warning which includes gratuitous violence, depression, suicide, torture.The book, published this April by Red Oak Publishing, LLC, was written by Szeker and is listed as an 'adult dystopian romance set in an asylum'.Author Brandi Szeker is facing intense backlash from 'BookTok' over her latest novel The Pawn and the Puppet.Woke TikTok mob forces horror author to CHANGE published debut novel over transgender pedophile character because she failed to mention ‘transphobia’ in lengthy list of trigger warnings printed at start of book