Greekchoir’s review of Yellowface > Likes and Comments
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Oooooohhhh noooo haha. I look forward to it even if I disagree.
will definitely be looking forward to your thoughts! I don't think this one is going to be so much for me
oooooh i also rated this low, very interested to hear your thoughts!
I do mean that in a positive way, too. Reviews were someone had a different take than me are always enlightening.
Grack21 wrote: "I do mean that in a positive way, too. Reviews were someone had a different take than me are always enlightening."
I definitely agree!! I think this book invites discussion so honestly any opinion on it is interesting :)
i'd love to join the club you mentioned lol
I wanted to respond to this when it went up but my life uh, interfered. But I can see how one's expectations and how you approach this book could result in very different experiences., For me, the social media and twitter stuff was kind of the highlight, I went into this sort of expecting a social media horror satire kind of thing, but I was also big onto certain areas of twitter in the SFF field in oh, God, what summer was it, I wanna say 2018, where I saw some really respected authors in the SFF field and some really promising new authors just OBLITERATE their careers in like seconds, so that part of the book really resonated.
Also, your resolution didn't go far enough comment made me giggle a bit as I've seen a few reviews online that suggest that is is all some sort of secret hit job on the publishing industry and it's actually really great. :P
The overreliance on Twitter is yet another way the book reveals a lack of editing. (My own review, in which I gave the book three stars because it could have been SO MUCH MORE, goes into that).
Otherwise - everything you said is valid, so is what everyone else said here, and I don't see much point in restating the obvious.
I guess I'm relieved that I'm not the only person on Goodreads who didn't give it a fawning four or five star rating.
Yellowface reads like, dare I say it, the just-found, unfinished rough of The Last Front. Only shorter and less epic.
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Oooooohhhh noooo haha. I look forward to it even if I disagree.
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will definitely be looking forward to your thoughts! I don't think this one is going to be so much for me
oooooh i also rated this low, very interested to hear your thoughts!
I do mean that in a positive way, too. Reviews were someone had a different take than me are always enlightening.
Grack21 wrote: "I do mean that in a positive way, too. Reviews were someone had a different take than me are always enlightening."I definitely agree!! I think this book invites discussion so honestly any opinion on it is interesting :)
i'd love to join the club you mentioned lol
I wanted to respond to this when it went up but my life uh, interfered. But I can see how one's expectations and how you approach this book could result in very different experiences., For me, the social media and twitter stuff was kind of the highlight, I went into this sort of expecting a social media horror satire kind of thing, but I was also big onto certain areas of twitter in the SFF field in oh, God, what summer was it, I wanna say 2018, where I saw some really respected authors in the SFF field and some really promising new authors just OBLITERATE their careers in like seconds, so that part of the book really resonated. Also, your resolution didn't go far enough comment made me giggle a bit as I've seen a few reviews online that suggest that is is all some sort of secret hit job on the publishing industry and it's actually really great. :P
The overreliance on Twitter is yet another way the book reveals a lack of editing. (My own review, in which I gave the book three stars because it could have been SO MUCH MORE, goes into that). Otherwise - everything you said is valid, so is what everyone else said here, and I don't see much point in restating the obvious.
I guess I'm relieved that I'm not the only person on Goodreads who didn't give it a fawning four or five star rating.
Yellowface reads like, dare I say it, the just-found, unfinished rough of The Last Front. Only shorter and less epic.
