used to be a fangirl,
There is something weirdly exciting about loving someone powerful,
Someone enormously popular.
In a way, you feel that overwhelming power and fame on your own fingertips,
It's so addictive, however it can be dangerous as well,
The obsession, the need, the undying love,
Kill The Boy Band tackles this teenage fantasy in a very clever and sometimes masochistic manner,
Four girls that are connected through a boy band,
These girls love these guys to death,
I felt the excitement, the overwhelming emotions,
Their lives are centered around these boys and it is crazy, but realistic as well,
A lot of situations in this book made me think back of the time when I was a fan girl.
The obsession, the undying love, watching every interview and reading every article there is about your object of obsession and undying love.
What I really liked about this book was its portrait of the life of a teenage fan girl.
The fandom, the daydreaming, the exhilaration over boy band songs,
What I also liked was how accepting this book was over that fact,
I rated this bookstars, so it passed the test for me,
However, I had some minor problems that kept me from rating it higher,
The dry sense of humor of the characters was amazing,
I liked how funny the story was, but sometimes it lacked, . emotion and wasn't very believable,
By a certain scene I expected more humanity and it didn't fulfill those expectations,
If you are looking for a crazy ride,
this book is yours!
I was not expecting Kill The Boy Band to be one of myfavorites.
First of all, it's contemporary, but then again it's not romance so I guess it had that going for it.
Second, it was completely unpredictable and weird, but in a good way, And third, it was about boy bands, I don't really care for boy bands, neither have I been fans of them,
The interesting thing about this book is that the main character's name is never mentioned, The entire story is told from her point of view, as she describes the events that transpired between Erin, Apple, and Isabel and The Ruperts.
Or more specifically, one band member, Rupert P, who is "accidentally" taken as hostage, Really, what happens from there is hectic, and then it turns into a murder mystery, This book kind of reminds me of a satirical version of sitelinkDangerous Girls, in that you have NO IDEA who the culprit is.
And the main character, who gives out fake names to everyone who questions her, like Sloane I'll be calling her Sloane from now on, is running around trying to reason with the girls about all of this, especially when things go from bad to worse.
The dynamics between her and her best friend, Erin, changed throughout the novel as well,
I think I'm just going to come out and say that I did see a couple of problematic issues in it which inspired my sitelinkproblematic issues discussion post!, but it didn't really affect my enjoyment.
I elaborated more in my post if you wanted to take a look for yourself,
This review is just incredibly hard to write because I rather not spoil anything, it's really just better to go into Kill The Boy Band blind and read it for yourself.
Overall, all I can say is that this was definitely an adventure, and I was not expecting it at all!
I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Quotes taken from ARC may or may not be in the published edition,
I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Toplove song.
I was going to hell,
Kill the Boy Band is about a group of girls who kidnap a boy band member, and it is simultaneously one of the weirdest and best books I have ever read.
There's no way to explain the plot beyond “they kidnap a boy band member” because from there, Moldavsky adds a twist a minute.
This book is a weird, actionpacked journey that never loses its grip on you, Yes, it requires suspension of disbelief, but it's a parody novel, Some absurdity is to be expected,
Surprisingly, this book reaches moments of genuine emotion and sends some good messages, The unnamed main character has somewhat of a growth arc, which was fun, The characters are just the right amount of morally ambiguous and fucked up,
I watched Breaking Bad, I know how to get rid of a body!
Mainly though, Kill the Boy Band is just hilarious.
Every moment made me laugh, There are welldone pop culture references and subtle situational comedy,
There's something about the way Goldy Moldavsky writes parody novels, It never feels like she's making fun of boy band fangirls or people who fight for social justice, even as she parodies them to hell and back.
Part of her positive message comes from the fact that she writes from the point of view of an actual character inside that sect of people.
Her parodies feel like loving fun rather than fitting into the “lmao, those stupid fangirls” type of humor.
That's what sets them apart,
VERDICT: Highly recommended, along with this authors' spectacular No Good Deed, My book mark is on page, Pageis as far as I could get in the six days I attempted to read this, which is five and a half more than I should have.
And inpages this is all the negative shit that really rubbed me the wrong way:
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The author attempts to justify her character's actions by insisting that the boy band member in question, Rupert P, is a jerk. He's more than that. He's an ugly jerk. and Now here's six pages telling you how ugly he is, and how dare he be mad at you for kidnapping him.
He should appreciate his fans, Also, he's so fucking ugly, Really ugly.
. Apple is a chubs. That's how she got her name, Because she's a chubs who was eating an apple when her gacious American parents decided to adopt her, BTW, she's Asian. But she's a fat Asian, THAT'S FUNNY, RIGHT
, Stalking and harrassing the girlfirend of a celebrity because you're butthurt and living in an unrealistic world where you imagine some day the boy will want your skank ass, is SUPER LEGIT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT BEING A FAN IS AND YOU TOTES HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE A SHITTY PERSON TO SOMEONE WHO HAS WHAT YOU DON'T.
With emojis.
. Mostly I just hate the way this book shits all over fandom, fans, and what is now a whole subculture of people and more mainstreme than it's ever been.
This book doesn't understand satire, It isn't funny. This book is nothing but disrespectful and irritating,
I hated this book, It's just downright offensive. Don't buy this trash.
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THIS IS THE CRAZIEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ, AND IT WAS AMAZING,
I seriously can't believe that this book started as a,read and ended as aread! Wow,
Everything escalated so quickly and it was a lot of fun, I already miss reading this book for the first time,
It was a lot like going to war, At least, that's what I imagine going to war is like, Stalking boy bands was serious business,
I decided to read this book for a precise reason, and maybe you can also guess it.
I'm a fan. A fan of lots of things, stories, people, And among those, I'm a fan of a boy band,
I honestly don't know how it happened, it's just their music, The way music sounds when you blast it in your earphones and it has the capacity of deleting every other sound around you, of making you believe that those lyrics are about yourself for justminutes andseconds notsocasual reference to Jet Black Heart.
Did I love them because they were the only boys in my life who consistently told me I was beautiful Probably.
I loved The Ruperts for who they were, sure, but I mostly loved them for how they made me feel.
Which was happy.
I have to tell you that I'm not one of those hardcore boy band fangirls "unfortunately" I don't have that passion that makes you stalk a celebrity/anymore, that time is gone for me, but I do like them so freaking much.
Oh, I'm talking aboutsos, Obv. yes, I looked for cute gifs like the girls in this book
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Luke is my favorite Ashton.
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What does this say about me In this book the MC explains a theory that I believed was only mine! Your bias actually tells something more about yourself than you even realize.
This was a really great book, I loved its dark comedy and satirical aspects, It made me laugh out loud sometimes with how ridiculously good it was! This type of comedy reminds me of the one in Scream Queens, only much better and less shoddy.
I laughed so much when
I was in Rupert K.
's bed.
I was in Rupert K, 's bed.
I shut my eyes and Rupert K, was lying beside me, looking at me through his lashes, lazy and long, his hair bedheady, sticking up in all the right places.
"My love," he said. "You're in my bed. "
"I know!" I squealed,
"What" Erin said.
"Huh" It was probably a good thing Erin snapped me out of my reverie before it got too NSFW.
The characters were all amazing in their characterization except for some things I'll talk about in a sec.
My favorite one was the main character, I loved her because I saw myself in her and in everything she did, Also I simultaneously love and hate that we don't get to know the protagonist's name, I find it original but it also bugs me a lot, I'm curious!
He was just another adult who forgot what it was like to love something so completely.
In fact, he probably only liked things ironically, which meant he didn't really like things at all, And I may have only been a teenager, but I knew a truth that he had obviously never grasped: the joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure, and meaningful.
It doesn't matter that it might ferment and taste different when you're older, That's the whole point of being a teenagernot worrying about the future,
Okay, things I didn't like so much:
Descriptions of characters, in particular of Apple and Rupert P.
I get that it was done for comedy but sometimes it was too much,
The slow beginning because I almost DNFed this, It would have been a big mistake,
In the end I loved loved loved this book and I recommend it! I actually just fell into a huge book hungover.
"Fans," he sighed, A bad word when he said it,
"Fans," I repeated, serious,
"You girls "
Are never taken seriously,
" should find a nice hobby, "
But we should be taken seriously, We can be amazing. And dangerous. "Boy band fangirls are a species that are more focused, determined, and powerful in large numbers than just about any other group of people I can think of.
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Holy shit, I loved this, I was not expecting to like this book as much as I did, This book had everything: humor, an obsession with a boyband, relatable fangirl moments, suspense, mystery, plot twists, just everything.
This is one of the funniest books I've ever read, I laughed out loud several times, Once I was laughing so hard I couldn't catch my breath, Maybe I just have a sick sense of humor, but this was hilarious, It's dark humor, but I appreciate it because dark humor is my favorite kind of humor if it's done right.
I finished this book in one sitting because I physically couldn't stop reading it, I also think it's absolutely hysterical how this fictitious boy band "The Ruperts" is loosely based on the boy band One Direction.
I was never personally obsessed with One Direction, but I still think this is freaking hilarious, This book is kind of absurd and crazy, but in the best way, It follows a youngyear old girl in New York when she stays at the same hotel as her favorite boy band intentionally of course with three of her closest friends.
And then they kidnap one of the boys in the boy band, and from there the story takes off and gets more and more entertaining and hilarious with each chapter.
"You've got this tunnel vision obsession that's keeping you from seeing real life, "
This is the kind of book that's better if you can relate to it, I will totally admit that I used to be absolutely obsessed with the Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas was my entire life, I've never seen a book capture the essence of what it's like to be a hardcore fangirl on a day to day basis.
These fangirls might seem crazy but that was me in high school, I totally get it, At that age it feels as if that boy band is your entire life, and at the time they were my entire life.
I love how this book talks about how fun and exciting it is to be a fangirl, How you live through the internet and have gif wars with other fans and twitter and tumblr are your lifelines and you would wait hours in the rain just to get a glimpse of them or be in the same room as them.
I completely understand the feeling, It made me feel so nostalgic to be honest, and it reminded me of all the crazy things I used to do as a fangirl.
I haven't been a hardcore fangirl like this in years but reading this sent me right back to what it was like to have that fangirl state of mind.
I loved it.
"I loved The Ruperts for who they were, sure, but I mostly loved them for how they made me feel.
Which was happy. The Ruperts made me happy, The simplest thing to be in the world, And the hardest. "
Also, the second half of this book took a crazy turn and had so many plot twists.
It became so suspenseful and intense and there were so many plot twists that I didn't see coming, The second half of this book reminded me of sitelinkDangerous Girls by Abigail Haas,
This book just continued to surprise me over and over again, It's completely unpredictable. I love how they find out about everything happening via twitter and tumblr and gossip websites because it's so accurate for a fangirl to constantly be checking those social media accounts for updates on their favorite celebrities.
I just loved the accuracy of what it's like to be a fangirl,
I just loved this book so much, It was hilarious and relatable and made me feel reminiscent of what it was like to be such a hardcore fangirl of a boy band.
I don't regret that time of my life because I remember how happy they made me, Seeing your favorite boy band member in person is one of the most exciting things in the world when you are such a young girl.
I love how this book really describes how powerful fangirls are, because it's true, Fangirls are like an army and they won't let anyone come between them and seeing their favorite band, I love when it says that the concert tickets sold out in,seconds and "it was the biggest crisis we'd ever faced as fans" because that literally happened to me inwhen I was trying to get concert tickets to see the Jonas Brothers and I remember being so insanely depressed.
I was a crazy fan girl, my room was covered in posters of them from floor to ceiling and I've seen them in concerttimes and I would follow their every move online and they were my everything.
I remember meeting Nick Jonas when I wasand it was the greatest day of my life and my heart was beating so fast and it was one of the happiest moments of my life.
I still look back on that day with happiness, This book made me reflect on one of the happiest, craziest times of my life and I love it for that.
Here is the photo from the day I met him:
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