#innamorata

apparently there is some amount of discourse going down on threads (where i do not have an account) about the lack of content warnings for the book innamorata by ava reid and people are trying to cancel the author over it, which is wild to me because content warnings are NOT a required part of books. in fact they've only become a part of publishing fairly recently and i can remember when people were discussing if they should be included in books at all! there are still a great many novels out there, especially in the horror genre, that do not include content warnings, and i don't think that authors should be dragged over hot coals for not including them. also, i have seen this kind of discourse happen several times over the last few years and notably male authors are never the ones who get called out for writing books with upsetting content and not including content warnings. i wonder why that could possibly be…