Holly rejoices at Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, weeps on Jan. 6, 2021, and makes sure to repeatedly advertise the fact of her mRNA vaccination and booster status, according to a review in the American Thinker.
The author made no secret of his intention to cram his political views into the novel, particular on the topic of COVID, telling Rolling Stone, “There’s this constant story that thousands of people are dying of heart disease because of the vaccinations. It’s not true, but it’s gained a lot of credence. So there’s a lot of that. And I tried to put that in the book.”
King, who made a point of telling people to “get the damn vax” during the pandemic, kills off Holly’s pro-life mother for having refused to get the mRNA vaccine after first attending an “anti-mask rally,” where she waved around a “MY BODY MY CHOICE” sign.
The author further suggests in the book that nursing home deaths — which were especially bad under Democratic leadership in New York — were the result of vaccine hesitation, again on the part of his ideological foes.
Whereas the protagonists in “Holly” are reportedly all women, minorities, and/or homosexuals, the villains are pair of old racist white people who don’t trust vaccines and eat people.
King makes his antipathies abundantly clear, going so far as to have a Christian family gang-rape a lesbian black vegan for the “sin” of not eating meat. The lesbian later kills her unborn baby.
NPR noted that “Covid-19 pandemic, racism and homophobia, the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Donald Trump’s effect on the country’s zeitgeist and political discourse are all very present in the narrative,” adding, “Holly is one of his most political novels to date, and it’ll surely anger all the right people.”
The “right people” who might be keen on taking King up on his recommendation to give his book a one-star review on Amazon can also follow suit on Goodreads.
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