Amazon axes reviews on Kristi Noem’s controversial book citing ‘unusual activity’

Amazon is preventing its users from writing reviews for South Dakota governor Kristi Noem’s new book due to “unusual reviewing activity” as the Republican faces massive backlash for writing about killing her dog.

When a user tries to write a review for Ms Noem’s book No Going Back, a notice pops up: “Amazon has noticed unusual reviewing activity on this product. Due to this activity, we have limited this product to verified purchase reviews.”

The book, released on Tuesday, also only has one star on Amazon, as of Wednesday morning.

It’s not immediately clear why the warning appears. The Independent has contacted Amazon and Ms Noem for comment.

The “unusual reviewing activity” warning came after Ms Noem received considerable flack after excerpts from her book were released about when she killed her 14-month-old wire-haired pointer Cricket two decades ago.

“I hated that dog,” she wrote in her memoir, detailing that Cricket was “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.

“At that moment,” Ms Noem continued, “I realized I had to put her down.” She admitted that “it was not a pleasant job… it had to be done”.

Seemingly everyone, from X users to comedians to Fox News to Hillary Clinton, has slammed her decision to slay her dog.

Regardless of thebarrage of scrutiny, the South Dakota governor has repeatedly defended her decision.

In the immediate backlash, she posted on X, defensively: “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”

In another post, she wrote: “I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of