Dylan Farrow's book

Did I misjudge the weird appeal Dylan Farrow has with people who couldn't possibly know anything about her? It would explain a lot.

There are "reviews" of Farrow's young adult novel on a site called Goodreads. One of them simply says, "When Dylan Farrow publishes a YA fantasy, you read it."

An excerpt from another review consisting mostly of animated gifs by someone who hasn't read the book:

COUNT ME IN FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING BY DYLAN FARROW. If her writing is as good as her brother's (the perfection that is Ronan Farrow), this is going to blow my mind. AND IT'S DYSTOPIAN TOO LIKE YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS GIRL.

These were obviously written by girls in Farrow's target audience. It's stupid to criticize them. But how do they have any idea who she is?

There were a few critical reviews questioning, among other things, why she wrote the book in the present tense.

...I’m so confused as to how this a “feminist fantasy.” It isn’t. Not at all. Among other things, the heroine is literally saved by a male character in the end.

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...Then bang ... we hit a wall of storytelling in the present tense, an account with so little tension, zero dynamic characters, and voice with no charisma, that I was out. I slogged through the rest because I wanted to write a fair review. By the end, I wasn’t any more invested. The MC is whiny, selfish, directionless, and too moony-eyed over boys to be any sort of female/feminist role model...