Yellowface

I figured that a 2023 Goodreads Choice Winner would be a wonderful read, but I was wrong. I love anything to do with writers and books, so this is what prompted me to keep turning the pages. Yellowface was “interesting enough” until it wasn't. Overall, the novel was tedious and, by the end, painful.

Also—SPOILER ALERT—isn't it a tad strange that Athena Liu's mom has proof that her daughter's novel was essentially stolen, yet the drafting notebooks for the story never see the light of day? Instead, they just sit in her house, untouched. I can understand the fear on Mrs Liu's end, but why doesn't this situation continue to haunt June? Every other interaction causes June to unravel, yet she is somehow able to mentally move on rather quickly from knowing this evidence exists. June doesn't make any attempt to have it destroyed. She simply trusts that mum's (the) word.