didn't really care for any of the stories

Gave off "being gay and mentally ill is linked to the devil." rhetoric. I'll assume the author simply wrote a story about this and doesn't believe in it himself; but even then this has been done so many times over that I can't be bothered to finish the novel. I would love to truly find out why the main character did what he did but I'm not motivated to get there.

Not to mention I honestly thought this would all play out differently when I read the description of this book. I didn't hate this, per say, but I assumed it would have been written differently.

i like the movie better sawrri

I'm not kidding when I say this is the worse piece of literature I have ever come across in my entire life. This is 200+ pages of absolute nonsensical gibberish. I'm extremely disappointed because this is one of the few books I've been overwhelmingly excited to read. I constantly checked the "Libby" app to see if it was listed by any of my libraries; I finally caved and found an EPUB online so I can just dive in. I wish I kept this in my imagination instead.

As an on-off K-Pop fan throughout the entirety of my childhood, I'm VERY familiar with how off K-Pop fans can be. Extremely well-versed in sasaengs and other obsessive fans, especially as K-Pop has gotten more popular over the years; Twitter fans specifically taking this to the extreme being tyrants to "protect" their favorite group. I understand what Yi is going for but this is... Jesus.

Y/N is nothing but a skew of faux intellectual bullshit, which I think is supposed to be some kind of satire? A critique on stan / fandom culture? Y/N is pretentious as HELL and reads as "baby's first creative writing course" where the author put every "big" word she could find between every sentence imaginable to get brownie points from their teacher. And people had a problem with Bunny by Mona Awad??? Pleaseeee.

I love a bizarre book but this is truly over the top and unreadable. Everybody in this book is incredibly unrealistic and ridiculous, the verbiage is annoying... I'm actually infuriated by this

okay so apparently this book is to be read after reading another series first titled "shades of magic." (like, it's a must, apparently, and this is not a standalone title)

um...... did not know that, so!

so boring i can't do it anymore. i had issues with the way n.e. davenport writes in the first book, but there were interesting plots and high points that kept me going until the end. this book makes all of davenport's poor writing skills so glaringly obvious that i can't force myself to stay until the end this time. i can't stand any of these characters.

i'm convinced all of—if not most—of grady hendrix's books have unnecessary anti-blackness in them. you can have a book set in the past, or in the south, and not include out of place micro aggressions. i don't even like his writing this aside but i keep giving him chances because the premises of his stories sound interesting. yet again, disappointed 

something about this just wasn't clicking for me.

so boring and repetitive. idk how i got through 50% of this

idc about these characters enough