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A review by plumeriade
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith
2.0
i love angry girls. i wanted to love Reiko. but unfortunately she just ends up feeling fake and melodramatic because there's no real direction to her violent anger. i'm not saying she needs some deep, sympathetic origin story because she doesn't. but Reiko is explosively angry and wants revenge for... what? there's no reason. so don't try to act like there is one. and then at the end it just ups and poofs away and she's smiling at everyone. mmmkay.
other thoughts:
- of course the other life she experiences is some horror legend love story lmao
- of course the cousin is a jpop wannabe kawaii caricature
- a male character says he had a bit of a thing with another guy and Reiko immediately compares it to shounen-ai, and he says his girlfriend didn't mind because it was just like her BL manga
- of course she's bisexual but the only same-sex stuff is all in the past, during which she fulfilled the psycho lesbian stereotype, and the only relationships/sex during the course of the book are hetero.
other thoughts:
- of course the other life she experiences is some horror legend love story lmao
- of course the cousin is a jpop wannabe kawaii caricature
- a male character says he had a bit of a thing with another guy and Reiko immediately compares it to shounen-ai, and he says his girlfriend didn't mind because it was just like her BL manga
- of course she's bisexual but the only same-sex stuff is all in the past, during which she fulfilled the psycho lesbian stereotype, and the only relationships/sex during the course of the book are hetero.