loppear reviewed Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
skewering
4 stars
Wonderfully contrived to make you care about what horror the dislikable narrator will justify next, in a savage and very online swipe at publishing, representation, and authorship.
Rebecca F. Kuang: Yellowface (2023, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)
323 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
Wonderfully contrived to make you care about what horror the dislikable narrator will justify next, in a savage and very online swipe at publishing, representation, and authorship.
Kuang's villain is so good that at points I started to wonder if this was a horror novel. The character's continued ability to justify her actions is really well done.
I didn't like the ending until I did. Overall, I flew through this. It's really entertaining.
This feels like every publishing twitter drama distilled into a single novel.