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A review by tatyanavogt
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
4.75
I really enjoyed this book. The first 24 pages hit me hard and I was invested. Then it shifted to your average-is YA contemporary/romance-ish coming of age novel and I was still pretty invested. Emotional and impactful moments surfacing here and there to remind me of the stakes at hand.
Simply put its a story about a girl who doesn't want to disappoint her parents but she wants to be a dancer and her parents want her to be a doctor. She is then forced to discover herself during a trip to Taipai that her parents set up so that she could learn the language and culture of her people.
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this book. There are a lot of layers to it and I feel like the author did a great job weaving them all together.
Spoiler thoughts:
Spoiler
I personally found some of the over rebellious parts to be a little annoying, but it makes sense under the circumstances.
I did like that the moral of it all was to focus on what YOU want and not what other people wanted. Our main character lived her life doing what her parents wanted, then she started this trip doing what her friend told her and in the end she realized that she didn't want either of those extremes, instead she wanted to focus on doing what she wanted.
It did make me upset that the school got mad at here for the nude photo that went around. And of course I think it was super fucked up of her "friend" to give something like that out. Especially when it seemed pretty clear that the MC wasn't even used to wearing provocative stuff to begin with. I had MAD respect though about her reaction. The realization that she had become friends with all the people who were involved and that if any of that was true they would realize how fucked up it was to accept her photo without her permission.
I also think the artists obsession with drawing her was a bit weird. Like I get him drawing her a little bit, but DAMN bruh. Like his drawings were more like stalker photos than anything else. Granted I actually liked his character and the fact that he saw her happiness in the end and was cool with that or whatever. I did want a better ending for him and am a little sad that he didn't get one.
And yeah, thats all I can think of at the moment. Good book. I enjoyed it. It made me emotional.
Simply put its a story about a girl who doesn't want to disappoint her parents but she wants to be a dancer and her parents want her to be a doctor. She is then forced to discover herself during a trip to Taipai that her parents set up so that she could learn the language and culture of her people.
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this book. There are a lot of layers to it and I feel like the author did a great job weaving them all together.
Spoiler thoughts:
Spoiler
I personally found some of the over rebellious parts to be a little annoying, but it makes sense under the circumstances.
I did like that the moral of it all was to focus on what YOU want and not what other people wanted. Our main character lived her life doing what her parents wanted, then she started this trip doing what her friend told her and in the end she realized that she didn't want either of those extremes, instead she wanted to focus on doing what she wanted.
It did make me upset that the school got mad at here for the nude photo that went around. And of course I think it was super fucked up of her "friend" to give something like that out. Especially when it seemed pretty clear that the MC wasn't even used to wearing provocative stuff to begin with. I had MAD respect though about her reaction. The realization that she had become friends with all the people who were involved and that if any of that was true they would realize how fucked up it was to accept her photo without her permission.
I also think the artists obsession with drawing her was a bit weird. Like I get him drawing her a little bit, but DAMN bruh. Like his drawings were more like stalker photos than anything else. Granted I actually liked his character and the fact that he saw her happiness in the end and was cool with that or whatever. I did want a better ending for him and am a little sad that he didn't get one.
And yeah, thats all I can think of at the moment. Good book. I enjoyed it. It made me emotional.