Aella is the partner of one of the authors! Of course she had advance access! I don’t know about Grimes, seems plausible to me (though not super clear whether to count here as sympathetic or critical, I don’t really know what she believes about this stuff, and also she has a lot of reach otherwise).
IIRC Aella and Grimes got copies in advance and AFAIK haven’t written book reviews (at least not in the sense Scott or the press did).
Aella is the partner of one of the authors! Of course she had advance access! I don’t know about Grimes, seems plausible to me (though not super clear whether to count here as sympathetic or critical, I don’t really know what she believes about this stuff, and also she has a lot of reach otherwise).