Daijah
read for the midnight society bookclub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_Ff...
this is a pretty well liked book at least by my friends and i wanted to love it and instead i disliked it so much that it boarders on hate 😭 i do think this book sparks interesting discussions which i did enjoy. i was a guest co-host for the midnight society bookclub and i loved doing that liveshow but almost everything about this book i didn't like. i feel like this book tried to discuss so much and literally did not say anything about any of it. i hated the writing (except the transcript portions) because it was literally so try-hard. the author was trying to be quirky and different and i could tell. i also didn't like the characters and even though the author tried to make them three dimensional they still were flat to me. there is some also questionable rep in this like the bisexual rep i don't think was necessarily harmful but it wasn't good either. i have also heard there is some japanese racism at the beginning of this which i didn't pick up on personally but i would look at own voices reviews to understand that better and the effects of it. lastly the only harmful bit in this book for me was that there is a neglectful, suicidal character in this book who is also bipolar. i have bipolar II and honestly almost all the rep we get is negative and this character could have had all the same characteristics but not be bipolar just because it does reflect negatively on the community.
read for the midnight society bookclub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_Ff...
this is a pretty well liked book at least by my friends and i wanted to love it and instead i disliked it so much that it boarders on hate 😭 i do think this book sparks interesting discussions which i did enjoy. i was a guest co-host for the midnight society bookclub and i loved doing that liveshow but almost everything about this book i didn't like. i feel like this book tried to discuss so much and literally did not say anything about any of it. i hated the writing (except the transcript portions) because it was literally so try-hard. the author was trying to be quirky and different and i could tell. i also didn't like the characters and even though the author tried to make them three dimensional they still were flat to me. there is some also questionable rep in this like the bisexual rep i don't think was necessarily harmful but it wasn't good either. i have also heard there is some japanese racism at the beginning of this which i didn't pick up on personally but i would look at own voices reviews to understand that better and the effects of it. lastly the only harmful bit in this book for me was that there is a neglectful, suicidal character in this book who is also bipolar. i have bipolar II and honestly almost all the rep we get is negative and this character could have had all the same characteristics but not be bipolar just because it does reflect negatively on the community.