The books have also been widely critiqued as advertising and marketing, normalizing, and idealizing an emotionally and physically abusive connection. In January 2008, she disclosed that she and Banhart experienced finished their marriage. His last tale, "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse" ("Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"), also bargains with the marriage amongst an artist and his audience.