Cait Corrain Goodreads Review Bomb Controversy
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Cait Corrain Goodreads Review Bomb Controversy refers to accusations of tampering and review bombing levied against the sci-fi romance author. In December 2023, Corrain was accused of tampering with the Goodreads reviews of other debut authors in her cohort using fake accounts. The scandal led to the book subscription service Illumicrate pulling her novel from their collection.
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On December 5th, 2023, X[1] user @XiranJayZhao made a series of posts talking about how a debut author has seen giving fellow debut authors one and two-star reviews on Goodreads while upvoting her own books on recommendation lists. The post gathered over 12,000 likes in a week (see below, top). @XiranJayZhao did not provide a name for the offending author, but their post was quoted by several people revealing that it was Cait Corrain.[2][3][4]
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Cait Corrain posted what she claims are screenshots from a conversation with her Discord friend "Lilly," where Lilly admits to review-bombing other authors and promoting Corrain's work.
The aforementioned screenshots were shared by fellow debut author Bethany Baptiste, who also notes that Corrain was accused by other authors of forging messages to absolve herself of guilt.[5]
On December 8th, X[6] user @XiranJayZhao made a series of posts recapping the events of the past week, gathering over 10,000 likes in four days (seen below).
Already seeing some "journalists" putting out articles with half-baked facts so here's a full explanation of the review bomb scandal that broke on Booktwt this week, part 1/3: pic.twitter.com/iiB9W8xzPW
— 𝕏iran * PREORDER HEAVENLY TYRANT (@XiranJayZhao) December 8, 2023
On December 11th, book publisher Del Ray Books[7] announced that they would no longer be publishing Cait Corrain's book in 2024 (seen below, left). Also on December 11th, X[8] user and artist @CoreyBrickley shared the artwork that would have accompanied Corrain's book, gathering over 33,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).
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[3] X – doctorbaixue
[4] X – kependall17
[5] X – StorySorcery
[6] X – XiranJayZhao
[7] X – DelReyBooks
[8] X – CoreyBrickley
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