Yellowface

Reading Love and Other Words feels a bit like opening an old box of childhood memories.

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If I was reading this with a physical copy, Im pretty sure I might have ripped a few pages apart. June's impulsiveness and selfishness and self righteousness got my imaginary fangs clawing at her throat. The themes featured were in depth and cut to the skin, eg: racism. A glimpse into the process of...

“What if Yellowface isn’t satire? What if it’s just the publishing industry with the lights turned on?”

Good writing. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Felt like the supporting characters were underdeveloped. I love how R.F Kuang captures the current time period we’re living in, and explores the phenomenon of chronic onlineness, the loneliness it breeds, and the ridiculousness of the onlin...

The book was captivating, and I genuinely enjoyed reading it. Every character was just horrible. Juniper was mean, Athena leeched off people’s stories and was incapable of genuine emotional connection, and everyone else was selfish, manipulative, mean, or something along those lines.

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The author actually used pancakes to kill a character, haa! I have no words, well maybe a few! This is culture shock for me because how do you die in a food eating competition? Hawakuwa na Cocacola?

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CHAOS, CLOUT, AND QUESTIONABLE LIFE CHOICES

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Enjoyed the plot twist, how Juniper Song kept me hooked is a mystery, what a character, ready to justify all her I'll actions, I'm unsatisfied with the ending though

The plot was amazing, had me at the edge of my seat.

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