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A review by cherki_amina
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
4.0
3,75-4⭐️
Thoughts to come, will probably have spoilers (rating might change)
Edit : review :
Yellowface by RF Kuang
This book let you in the secrets and dark side of the publishing industry, how marginalised authors are seen and how they are coerced to write what the industry wants. Because they fo want a poc author to talk about sensible subjects but it shouldn’t be too sensible or it might offend someone. They can go and change real history just because it seems a bit too much of trauma.
You might be surprised by this rating if you saw my stories while reading it. Because even though this book enticed me and i couldn’t thinking about it when i wasn’t reading it, it was also frustrating. I got frustrated from the main character which i think was the author’s point, she kept going in her racism and entitlement and victim playing and i just wanted to shake her, this part was the good part. But than we reached the ending and to be honest i was very disappointed with it, i wanted more, i expected more.
A friend of mine and i were discussing this book and she told me she felt as if the editors/publishing company forced the author to change the ending which would have been ironic based on the content of the book xD but it seemed very probable because it felt as if a white woman wrote the ending and not a poc woman who usually faces racism.
As i said i enjoyed it very much and read it in under 4h, but i wanted a better ending (some loved the ending though so it’s very personal)
Thoughts to come, will probably have spoilers (rating might change)
Edit : review :
Yellowface by RF Kuang
This book let you in the secrets and dark side of the publishing industry, how marginalised authors are seen and how they are coerced to write what the industry wants. Because they fo want a poc author to talk about sensible subjects but it shouldn’t be too sensible or it might offend someone. They can go and change real history just because it seems a bit too much of trauma.
You might be surprised by this rating if you saw my stories while reading it. Because even though this book enticed me and i couldn’t thinking about it when i wasn’t reading it, it was also frustrating. I got frustrated from the main character which i think was the author’s point, she kept going in her racism and entitlement and victim playing and i just wanted to shake her, this part was the good part. But than we reached the ending and to be honest i was very disappointed with it, i wanted more, i expected more.
A friend of mine and i were discussing this book and she told me she felt as if the editors/publishing company forced the author to change the ending which would have been ironic based on the content of the book xD but it seemed very probable because it felt as if a white woman wrote the ending and not a poc woman who usually faces racism.
As i said i enjoyed it very much and read it in under 4h, but i wanted a better ending (some loved the ending though so it’s very personal)