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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
1.5 stars** I really wanted to love this book. I really like the idea of having fandom related books. Considering I was and still am pretty into the fandom culture. But unfortunately this book had so many problems I just couldn’t support. The constant fat shaming and the fact that the only band member to die was gay is not okay and I cannot support a book with these sorts of messages.
Overall, this was supposed to be a humours read that fell short and just ended up being pretty offensive.
Overall, this was supposed to be a humours read that fell short and just ended up being pretty offensive.
I'm going to write a full review of this book on my blog soon. There are things I loved and things that were just okay. I definitely enjoyed the story and the framing device, but it took me a while to read, which is a good indicator of how much I like a book.
I listened to the audiobook. Barrett did a great job narrating/ singing and it was a fun surprise to recognize the voice of the narrator when I started listening.
The book itself was very unique- not really for me but I can totally undestand people loving this.
Do fans of boybands like this book or hate it??? Genuinely, interested in hearing the answer.
Plot-wise this book gave me fanfic vibes but with better writing.
The book itself was very unique- not really for me but I can totally undestand people loving this.
Do fans of boybands like this book or hate it??? Genuinely, interested in hearing the answer.
Plot-wise this book gave me fanfic vibes but with better writing.
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
3.5 stars
THE ENDING
ID HAVE LOVED THIS BOOK IF IT WASNT FOR THE ENDING
“it wasn’t worth it being a fan these days if you weren’t willing to go the extra mile for your idols”
Kill the boy band nos cuenta la historia de cuatro fans (sasaengs) que por coincidencia terminan secuestrando al integrante de una banda famosa
Un montón de cosas pasan desde ahí
Es una vista sobre lo intenso que pueden llegar a ser la fans cuando se obsesionan demasiado con la idea de una persona famosa. Y es que la historia pudo haber sido una buena crítica sobre el otro lado de los fandoms pero siento que hasta cierto punto romantiza a las fans obsesivas, porque estas personas hacen cosas bastante creepys como reservar habitaciones en el mismo hotel que sus idols para irlos a buscar.
Se meten a su cuarto y revisan sus cosas
I’m sorry, pero eso es meterse con la privacidad de una persona, y el hecho de que sea famoso no te da el derecho.
“Loving someone so fiercely gave us permission to be critical of them”
Es una cultura muy extensa la del fandom, pero de verdad que no puedo perdonar que a pesar de todas las cosas que los personajes hicieron ninguna obtuvo consecuencias o represalias por sus acciones.
NOT RELATED pero lo escuché en audiolibro y la experiencia es muy buena 10/10 por la voz de Barret Wilbert Weed
THE ENDING
ID HAVE LOVED THIS BOOK IF IT WASNT FOR THE ENDING
“it wasn’t worth it being a fan these days if you weren’t willing to go the extra mile for your idols”
Kill the boy band nos cuenta la historia de cuatro fans (sasaengs) que por coincidencia terminan secuestrando al integrante de una banda famosa
Un montón de cosas pasan desde ahí
Es una vista sobre lo intenso que pueden llegar a ser la fans cuando se obsesionan demasiado con la idea de una persona famosa. Y es que la historia pudo haber sido una buena crítica sobre el otro lado de los fandoms pero siento que hasta cierto punto romantiza a las fans obsesivas, porque estas personas hacen cosas bastante creepys como reservar habitaciones en el mismo hotel que sus idols para irlos a buscar.
Se meten a su cuarto y revisan sus cosas
I’m sorry, pero eso es meterse con la privacidad de una persona, y el hecho de que sea famoso no te da el derecho.
“Loving someone so fiercely gave us permission to be critical of them”
Es una cultura muy extensa la del fandom, pero de verdad que no puedo perdonar que a pesar de todas las cosas que los personajes hicieron ninguna obtuvo consecuencias o represalias por sus acciones.
NOT RELATED pero lo escuché en audiolibro y la experiencia es muy buena 10/10 por la voz de Barret Wilbert Weed
Holy. This book was wild start to finish. I don’t think i have loved an authors writing style more. There were so many different twists in the story and the plot was absolutely beautiful. One of my new favs.
*i recieved a free copy in exchange for a honest review, throug) NetGalley *
This book was just not for me
The humor used in this book -because I am guessing that that is what the author tried to be? Funny?- just was not any kind of humor I find amusing.
The writing was not horrible but not good, actually it felt a lot like a draft of something that's the writer should a back over and give more too, more character depth, more realism, just more honest real life!
I would say that this read a bit like fanfiction for some kind of band, but honest? I read LOTs of fanfiction that was written better then this? I am not trying to be mean, I am really not!
I liked the idea, but I just don't think that the author did everything that could have been done with it, especially considering that it is a published book!
I mean those girls run around the hotel as if they have no worries at all, all the while having a boy band member tied up a hotel room and apparently nobody cares? Huh?
Also those "friends" wher just horrible to each other! If you write a girl friends based story could you please reframe from basically having them rip each other into tiny little pieces verbally? Thanks that would be fantastic!
Another thing I found similarly irritating as the constantly fighting girls, where the boy and guys, especially their names, Rupert P., Rupert K and Rupert X.? Really? There wasn't even a why to give those guys at least a bit of an individually?
So yeah, sorry but this did not work for me. It could have, with a few smaller and one or two bigger changes. Then it would have been a great story I am sure, as it is right now and in the arc I read? That didn't work for me.
But maybe that is just because it really was not my type of humor, and "funny" books (because it is meant to be one right? Still not sure) are really hard to review because humor is just so specific, I think so at least.
What I would recommend is if you are interested in this book, go get a chapter or two somewhere to read, read that and decide if the writing and the style of the story is to your liking if that is working for you? Great, have a fantastic time, the entire book goes in the same lines as that first chapter!
If you didn't like those first few pages? Just leave it, do yourself a favor. I read the entire thing. It doesn't not get better or change in anyway. What the first few pages are is that you get throughout the entire thing.
Decide for yourselves, but for me it didn't work. Maybe the next book by this author will work better for me, if it is not to similar to this one.
This book was just not for me
The humor used in this book -because I am guessing that that is what the author tried to be? Funny?- just was not any kind of humor I find amusing.
The writing was not horrible but not good, actually it felt a lot like a draft of something that's the writer should a back over and give more too, more character depth, more realism, just more honest real life!
I would say that this read a bit like fanfiction for some kind of band, but honest? I read LOTs of fanfiction that was written better then this? I am not trying to be mean, I am really not!
I liked the idea, but I just don't think that the author did everything that could have been done with it, especially considering that it is a published book!
I mean those girls run around the hotel as if they have no worries at all, all the while having a boy band member tied up a hotel room and apparently nobody cares? Huh?
Also those "friends" wher just horrible to each other! If you write a girl friends based story could you please reframe from basically having them rip each other into tiny little pieces verbally? Thanks that would be fantastic!
Another thing I found similarly irritating as the constantly fighting girls, where the boy and guys, especially their names, Rupert P., Rupert K and Rupert X.? Really? There wasn't even a why to give those guys at least a bit of an individually?
So yeah, sorry but this did not work for me. It could have, with a few smaller and one or two bigger changes. Then it would have been a great story I am sure, as it is right now and in the arc I read? That didn't work for me.
But maybe that is just because it really was not my type of humor, and "funny" books (because it is meant to be one right? Still not sure) are really hard to review because humor is just so specific, I think so at least.
What I would recommend is if you are interested in this book, go get a chapter or two somewhere to read, read that and decide if the writing and the style of the story is to your liking if that is working for you? Great, have a fantastic time, the entire book goes in the same lines as that first chapter!
If you didn't like those first few pages? Just leave it, do yourself a favor. I read the entire thing. It doesn't not get better or change in anyway. What the first few pages are is that you get throughout the entire thing.
Decide for yourselves, but for me it didn't work. Maybe the next book by this author will work better for me, if it is not to similar to this one.
As a former boy-band fanatic (JoBros for life!) this book was hilariously accurate to me, as far as the girls being obsessed with the band to the point of knowing everything about them. The whole book was hilarious in a kind of dark way, and I honestly couldn't put it down. Finding out who killed the poor Rupert really threw me off, because for whatever reason I wasn't expecting it. Honestly, I picked this book up at the library as a last ditch effort to check out enough books to read, and it turned out to be one of my favorites that I've read lately. The whole thing was well written and very entertaining!
3.5 ⭐️
Trigger warning: fat-shaming, slut-shaming, sexism, homophobia, sexual assault, murder, description of corpse
I don’t know what to think of this book. On one hand, it thrives to be feminist and depict fangirls as more than the crazy image the general public has. But on the other hand, it shows everything that’s terrible with fangirls.
A lot of scenes and descriptions reminded me of very real incidents that happened with fangirls, most of it in the One Direction fandom (on which this book seems to be based): the gay beard (although that one was a creation of mostly fake gay-friendly fans that took a horrific turn), the one member “not fitting” and suddenly quitting the band, the shitty manager, the fangirls finding and hiding in their hotel rooms...
Those made me cringe because it magnified the problems there are in the fandoms without really downplaying any of them. Let me be frank here: those are a MINORITY of fans. And if you’ve never been a fangirl and you read this novel, you might come out of it thinking we’re all cuckoo. I’m not gonna lie, teen/YA me did some questionable things for boybands. I’m not necessarily proud of it (though the moose thing will always make me laugh). But teens do dumb stuff all the time. Fangirls are generally look worse because – you got it – most of us identify as girls.
I get what this book is trying to achieve, but it’s not doing it for me. And it woke up some really bad memories of my teen years as a Backstreet Boys fan. I was an idiot back then, though I never would have kidnapped a band member. And I’m so glad now that I never actually spent time with any of them, because I would have ended up broken.
As it stands I’m a moderate fangirl now, what we call a Proud Mama to the 1D boys. (Yup, I’m the same age as them. Don’t ask.) And my life is a lot simpler for it.
Trigger warning: fat-shaming, slut-shaming, sexism, homophobia, sexual assault, murder, description of corpse
I don’t know what to think of this book. On one hand, it thrives to be feminist and depict fangirls as more than the crazy image the general public has. But on the other hand, it shows everything that’s terrible with fangirls.
A lot of scenes and descriptions reminded me of very real incidents that happened with fangirls, most of it in the One Direction fandom (on which this book seems to be based): the gay beard (although that one was a creation of mostly fake gay-friendly fans that took a horrific turn), the one member “not fitting” and suddenly quitting the band, the shitty manager, the fangirls finding and hiding in their hotel rooms...
Those made me cringe because it magnified the problems there are in the fandoms without really downplaying any of them. Let me be frank here: those are a MINORITY of fans. And if you’ve never been a fangirl and you read this novel, you might come out of it thinking we’re all cuckoo. I’m not gonna lie, teen/YA me did some questionable things for boybands. I’m not necessarily proud of it (though the moose thing will always make me laugh). But teens do dumb stuff all the time. Fangirls are generally look worse because – you got it – most of us identify as girls.
I get what this book is trying to achieve, but it’s not doing it for me. And it woke up some really bad memories of my teen years as a Backstreet Boys fan. I was an idiot back then, though I never would have kidnapped a band member. And I’m so glad now that I never actually spent time with any of them, because I would have ended up broken.
As it stands I’m a moderate fangirl now, what we call a Proud Mama to the 1D boys. (Yup, I’m the same age as them. Don’t ask.) And my life is a lot simpler for it.