A review by squeeb13
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

This is a book that is full of promise but fails to deliver on it, due to lack of immersion. I thought this book looked quite interesting, that’s why I grabbed it off the shelf at my local library. But my biggest gripe with it is that it has so many blatant millennial in jokes that remind you painfully that you’re reading a book on Earth. I also loathed the main character, I found her to be just a generally really annoying twerp and it made me not want to cheer for her. Not to mention this book is nothing more than an even more watered down version of a religious aesthetic depicted in a watered down anime made to look cool and offer not much else. From the pen name change to Neon, the word Genesis being in the title of the story, and the book itself being laden with blatant evangelism. It’s almost as if they were like “hey I’m going to make a book entirely written around a not so inside joke about an anime that isn’t anywhere near as deep or profound that I think it is.” Therefore this book irked me all the way through because it is the absolute peak of millenialism that I cannot stand. Latching on to meaningless products made for nothing more than brainless consumption, and convincing themselves that it’s the pinnacle of art. All while patting themselves on the back for giving a near schizophrenic level of false merit given to something it never had in the first place. I didn’t really enjoy this book.