rDrama author gets review bombed

https://twitter.com/mynameismarines/status/1663903383466418177

Dropped by publisher

The GoodReads page

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When seventeen-year-old Stella is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers flanking her bed, sheer terror pervades the comfort and sanctuary of her childhood bedroom. As she’s forcibly hauled off to a wilderness camp for troubled teens, Stella knows exactly who’s behind this unexpected act of control: her parents.

Inspired by the true-life experience of author Sarah Stusek—herself a former child actor who was sent to a wilderness therapy camp in her teens—Three Rivers is a captivating Gen-Z Girl, Interrupted: a tale of a smartly flawed and nuanced young woman on a journey toward inner growth, maturity, and reclaiming her life.

:marseyxd: LMBO Where do I even begin with this?

If the writing is as excellent as this summary, I don't think this young lady has anything to worry about. Just look at all those power words :marseyclappingglasses:

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herself a former child actor who was sent to a wilderness therapy camp in her teens

Well we know she was definitely abused/r*ped. Feel bad tbh, makes sense she is r-slurred

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Those troubled teen camps are basically p-do heaven

They attract psychopath freaks as staff, and they'll tape 13 year old kids to the walls because they have no oversight and kids often are not allowed to contact their parents without it being screened, even if their parents care about them. Partially because these facilities gotta griftmax more money, and charge the most for the least care. The brochures usually have horseback riding, nice meals, rock climbing-- but in reality they're warehousing these kids with none of that stuff (usually a huge room with rusty cots in a shitty compound where they punish you for not staring at the wall the right way) and assuring the parents that they are "healing" and need more time or else they won't recover.

Somewhere there's a list of teens that died in these places and how but I haven't found that list again.

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Last Podcast on the Left did a really in depth series on the troubled teen industry

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This does not shock me at all unfortunately :marseydepressed:

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It's what those shit kids need/deserve tho

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idk about "need"

TTI kids have worse outcomes by a lot

But if u like suffering and hatred and want to maximize that sort of thing, then it's great

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:marseyagreefast:

Children should suffer

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Inspired by the true-life experience of author Sarah Stusek—herself a former child actor who was sent to a wilderness therapy camp in her teens—Three Rivers is a captivating Gen-Z Girl, Interrupted: a tale of a smartly flawed and nuanced young woman on a journey toward inner growth, maturity, and reclaiming her life.

lol sucks when you want to have had a hard life but nothing particularly bad ever happened to you

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When seventeen-year-old Stella is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers flanking her bed, sheer terror pervades the comfort and sanctuary of her childhood bedroom. As she’s forcibly hauled off to the wilderness

:#marseycoomer2::#marseycoomer2::#marseycoomer2::#marseygangbang:

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/16858117697271876.webp :#marseyflushzoom:

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:marseycring#e:

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The controversy began over the weekend when GoodReads user Karleigh Kebartas, an event planner at a nursing home in Massachusetts who graduated from Pace University last year, posted a positive review of an advance copy of the book. It was the first book she had ever gotten early, she said. The initial version of her review praised Three Rivers as “a really great first novel!!!” but said that “the ending was kind of predictable,” hence the near-perfect score.

Lmao I hate everyone involved with this. From the commercial producer turned YA drivel entitled author to the boring multiple exclamation point bingo planner reviewer. YA as a genre and everyone associated with it should be eliminated.

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The controversy began over the weekend when GoodReads user Karleigh Kebartas, an event planner at a nursing home in Massachusetts who graduated from Pace University last year

Wtf is this? Is the journo paid per word?

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Imagine sperging out over a 4/5 like you're some uber driver, lmao. Good job, r-slur.


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People get a single whiff of the kind of solidarity we'll show to a person obviously under the thumb of faceless capital and decide they're entitled to that shit from everyone

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Wait a minute... a single 4/5 review can cause this much seethe??

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Oh yeah, they get super pissed because their rating affects how many rides the algorithm will give them. I'm sure they're still having lots of seethe threads on rideshare ratings. It's kinda understandable because it affects their income, and most people who know this just give 5's by default.


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:#marseywomanmoment2pat:

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“I had a perfect 5 star average till this b-word came up. She said, ‘The ending was kind of predictable.’ Yeah, well, it’s my life, not a fricking murder mystery. ‘But other than that, it was incredible,’ so you just gave me four stars?” The video attacking Kebartas’ review no longer appears on Stusek’s TikTok profile, removed for violating TikTok’s community guidelines, according to screenshots and Stusek herself.

Anyone have the video?

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No but I found this.

Predictably, she's a :marseychonkerfoidpuke:

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Stusek... @Cusek

:#marseysquint:

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Look, you can accuse me of being fat, but accuse me of being a women is going too far.

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HOW DARE YOU NOT APPLAUD MY STUNNING AND BRAVE LIVED EXPERIENCES is that really what this controversy is about?

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So do your parents get a refund if you’re still an entitled pain in the butt after wilderness camp? Because I’m thinking they got took. :!marseythinkorino:

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You don't get a refund even if your kid dies from medical neglect or gets literal leprosy or gets assraped bc u can never prove it because you signed over ur parental rights to a bunch of p-dophile grifters in Utah because you're a fricking r-slur

Who u gonna beleive? Bad kids? Or our staff? :abusivewife: trust me ur a good parent for investing twenty grand in ur child's future.

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The novel is somewhat autobiographical—Stusek describes undergoing a similar ordeal to the protagonist’s.

Aka her parents sent her to summercamp one time.

an event planner at a nursing home

:marseyjohns#on: thats not a real job, is it?

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Wilderness therapy isn't summer camp lmao

It's where they walk kids in 30 mile wide circles on federal land in the desert and don't let them know where they are with a compas or map or anything because if they get a sense of where civilization they might try to escape.

They tell the parents the kids are doing "cool survival stuff and are totally happy" but really they drinking dirty water eating rice and getting intestinal parasites and malnutrition lol

they also often have weird shame circles where inmates have to rank eachother on their performance and ur not allowed to rank everyone too good or different from how everyone else ranks them

And if u get bad rankings u lose privileges, for example like being able to shower (pour ur dirty water cup over ur head) behind a curtain, instead the staff have to wash u because the others rated ur hygene 1 star

But a lot of ppl describe it as used mud water they gotta bathe with so they can't actually get clean so they get punished more

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This is what justice looks like in a feminized, social-media enabled society.

This woman's writing career is completely over because of this.

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bruh 4 out of 5 stars is still really good

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@Jsingal69 would love this

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