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A review by opalchainsaw
Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
2.0
at first i thought maybe i would have liked this more if i read it a few years ago when i was a one direction stan....... but nah
i know there are some interesting/weird stories about stans irl but this all just seemed so over the top and not in a good way
there was so much fat shaming like lmao. apple knocks rp unconscious because of her weight, brings a giant suitcase filled with only popcorn (??? what the hell honestly), etc, her weight is basically a joke throughout the whole thing. i feel like half of this book was just them describing how ugly rp was. we get it: teenage fangirls are crazy stalkers who only care about looks!!! duh!!!!!
not only did the girls kidnap rp, the way apple treated him was kind of horrible - licking his face, sitting on his lap and taking pics - like sure even tho he was a shitty person, this was just unnecessary and weird. and don't you just love how the only (secretly) gay member of the band is the one who gets murdered? i'm so tired. there was also tons of homophobia just regarding the fact that he was gay/in the closet. and i'm just disappointed because the writing made it seem like erin/isobel/"sloan" could be sapphic but nothing ever came of any of it? like almost every time sloan was describing erin she used the word beautiful but instead of having them fall in love they were fighting?? goodbye
i know there are some interesting/weird stories about stans irl but this all just seemed so over the top and not in a good way
there was so much fat shaming like lmao. apple knocks rp unconscious because of her weight, brings a giant suitcase filled with only popcorn (??? what the hell honestly), etc, her weight is basically a joke throughout the whole thing. i feel like half of this book was just them describing how ugly rp was. we get it: teenage fangirls are crazy stalkers who only care about looks!!! duh!!!!!
not only did the girls kidnap rp, the way apple treated him was kind of horrible - licking his face, sitting on his lap and taking pics - like sure even tho he was a shitty person, this was just unnecessary and weird. and don't you just love how the only (secretly) gay member of the band is the one who gets murdered? i'm so tired. there was also tons of homophobia just regarding the fact that he was gay/in the closet. and i'm just disappointed because the writing made it seem like erin/isobel/"sloan" could be sapphic but nothing ever came of any of it? like almost every time sloan was describing erin she used the word beautiful but instead of having them fall in love they were fighting?? goodbye
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment