Is R.F. Kuang's Yellowface worth the hype ? (An honest review)

RF Guang has quickly become one of my auto buy authors first we had our debut with the

poppy Wars an epic fantasy series with them refreshing and interesting Asian world is it

the best of fantasy series out there no but it is still a very agreeable read and then came

Babel and it blew my mind an absolute brick of a dark Academia novel that criticizes both the

genre itself and much larger and heavier themes like culture wars and cultural appropriation

colonization and how language can be a tool for oppression Babel was without a doubt one of the

most intelligent books that I read last year and now she change this genre once more and dips into

the world of literary fiction is that a smart strategy does it keep things fresh or does she

risk to finally hit a snack and experience that this voice simply wasn't hers the hype for this

book is very real but with such hype always comes a bit of anxiety that it might just get overhyped

so is it worth your time is it worth a hype clearly it is high time that we talk yellow face

so this is how I'm going to structure this video in the first part I will

do a non-spoiler review and just share what the book is all about and give you my initial ideas

in the second part I will delve a little bit deeper still going to keep it short and fresh

but they are going to be spoilers so if you still have to read the book or you're still a bit on the

fence about it just skip to the last part where we wrap up the thoughts for today and I'm going to

dare to do some predictions predictions on the next book and when we will see it so make sure to

check that part at the end because there's nothing more fun than telling me I was wrong after all

don't know yet what yellowface is all about let me show you the small synopsis Athena Leo is a

literary darling and June Hayward is a literary nobody when Athena dies in a freak accident June

steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name of juniper

song but it is evidence threatens June's stolen success she discovers exactly how far she will

go to keep what she thinks she deserves what happens next is entirely everyone else's fault

so yellow face is a thriller it is a satire and it is absolutely modern literary fiction yellowface

is a book about many things that tie in perfectly together it is a very very interesting view in

the world of publishing today what makes an auto successful and what makes books fail but in true

RF guang's style it also criticizes that world it criticizes the fact that race or gender or

affiliation has become a marketing tool and in the end it seems to be all about the money but it is

of course also a book about racism about culture wars about cultural appropriation and it is most

definitely the best book about cancel culture that I have read in a long long time yellow face is a

lot but it is never too much and I really really enjoyed this book in fact the more I think about

it the more I enjoy it and where I was initially hovering at four stars maybe a four and a half

it is a definite five-star read for me now it is mind-blowing to see how an author can

so easily change their voice from the very almost Victorian and embellished language that we have

in Babel we now have a crude River on the edges very modern very brutal tone of voice as if she

has been writing contemporary literary fiction for ages now and especially yellowface feels very very

now yellow face again is a very intelligent book it has a razor sharp with and it does that typical

Rebecca F Quang thing where it shines slides on a situation from all sides it never judges but

it gives you all the information as a reader to make up your own mind I highly recommend this book