I'm curious to know all of your thoughts on the Haunting Adeline movie adaptation, especially with the controversy online

Just a warning that there may be sensitive topics below, including mentions of non-con.

For those of you who don't know Haunting Adeline, it's a popular dark romance novel on booktok. Now, why is this a controversy, you ask? Personally, I haven't read the book, nor will I ever, but based on the evidence in the book and the snippets shared online, the MMC, Zade Meadows, raped the FMC, Adeline. When readers messaged the author about this, the author replied by saying that "she provoked him first," "she enjoyed it," and "it's just fiction." Not to mention the author herself confirmed it was rape. In the book, the FMC literally said in her inner monologue and I quote, "Is this what trauma does? Knowing you’ve been violated but your body chooses to go numb instead?"

You cannot convince me the FMC wanted it. Some readers still defend MMC's actions, saying "she wanted it," which I think is extremely harmful for SA survivors, and encourages victim blaming. I understand that some survivors use this book to cope, but it doesn't mean that it's a healthy way to cope or that the author has the right to romanticize SA and non-con. That's also an argument they often give, but what about those who AREN'T SA survivors? What's your excuse?

Imagine this getting turned into a movie. A book that glorifies SA. It would be a disaster and completely dangerous. Having this on screens WILL desensitize viewers from this. I am not saying to ban this book by any means, all I'm saying is that an adaptation would be harmful, and that it should be kept as a book. This is only MY OPINION btw. Curious to hear all your thoughts on this!

Lila letting people mispronounce her name as Ly-la instead of Lee-la because it's easier to manage than correcting people on their pronunciation 🙂‍↕️ That's exactly me when I let non-Filipinos/people in school call me by my second name when I was younger because it's easier than explaining that nobody, not even my family, calls me by my government name 😂 Sometimes I still let this happen to me when people call me "Elaine", singular L, instead of "Ellaine", double L (it comes from Ellen) 🫢