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A review by coralinejones
Y/N by Esther Yi
Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.
I'm not kidding when I say this is the worse piece of literature I have ever come across in my entire life. This is 200+ pages of absolute nonsensical gibberish. I'm extremely disappointed because this is one of the few books I've been overwhelmingly excited to read. I constantly checked the "Libby" app to see if it was listed by any of my libraries; I finally caved and found an EPUB online so I can just dive in. I wish I kept this in my imagination instead.
As an on-off K-Pop fan throughout the entirety of my childhood, I'm VERY familiar with how off K-Pop fans can be. Extremely well-versed in sasaengs and other obsessive fans, especially as K-Pop has gotten more popular over the years; Twitter fans specifically taking this to the extreme being tyrants to "protect" their favorite group. I understand what Yi is going for but this is... Jesus.
Y/N is nothing but a skew of faux intellectual bullshit, which I think is supposed to be some kind of satire? A critique on stan / fandom culture? Y/N is pretentious as HELL and reads as "baby's first creative writing course" where the author put every "big" word she could find between every sentence imaginable to get brownie points from their teacher. And people had a problem with Bunny by Mona Awad??? Pleaseeee.
I love a bizarre book but this is truly over the top and unreadable. Everybody in this book is incredibly unrealistic and ridiculous, the verbiage is annoying... I'm actually infuriated by this
As an on-off K-Pop fan throughout the entirety of my childhood, I'm VERY familiar with how off K-Pop fans can be. Extremely well-versed in sasaengs and other obsessive fans, especially as K-Pop has gotten more popular over the years; Twitter fans specifically taking this to the extreme being tyrants to "protect" their favorite group. I understand what Yi is going for but this is... Jesus.
Y/N is nothing but a skew of faux intellectual bullshit, which I think is supposed to be some kind of satire? A critique on stan / fandom culture? Y/N is pretentious as HELL and reads as "baby's first creative writing course" where the author put every "big" word she could find between every sentence imaginable to get brownie points from their teacher. And people had a problem with Bunny by Mona Awad??? Pleaseeee.
I love a bizarre book but this is truly over the top and unreadable. Everybody in this book is incredibly unrealistic and ridiculous, the verbiage is annoying... I'm actually infuriated by this