A review by joepyeweed
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

3.5

This was a very interesting premise, but presented without nuance. June was an extremely unlikeable character, as she should be— but her only personality was “racism” “insecurity” and “complaints.” That made the overall conflict of the novel feel much less believable than it might have been if she had been a more intricately fleshed out character who grappled at all with the morality of what she had done. 

Also, how stupid can she be?
After getting away with the first plagiarism, lifting a paragraph word for word from Athena and leaving it in the finished book was just too dumb to be believed. She wrote the rest of the book herself— so any sensible person would take out the few stolen sentences and publish the rest. That plot point felt much too convenient.
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