Yellowface

2.5 stars

Largely disappointed with how it turned out. It started good and very meta. But as the story goes on, it somehow lost it's path underneath all of Junie's narcissistic self-victimhood. I feel like I would've love the way the events had turned out if it hadn't end up in the most anti-climactic and artificial wat as possible. Like, almost all of the events that had happened (sans Athena dying by choking on a fucking pancake lmao) seems like something you'd actually stumble upon a trending thread on booktwt. But then the last 20% had happened and all the possibilities had died now without much flourish.

We didn't even know what happened with Athena's mom!

The writing aside, I guess the snarky writing helped me go through this without giving up because Junie and insufferable and so unrepentant that it's just too laughable on my end. She's almost a cartoonish character by the end.