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S'està carregant… Fan Club: A Novel (edició 2021)de Erin Mayer (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I almost gave this book 3 stars. I was right there, even though it felt a bit disjointed, and was unbelievable much of the time. It was fascinating to see into the minds of the rabid fan cult. To see deep into the people who become so obsessed with a famous person, that they think they OWN that person. Erin Mayer mentioned more than a few times that these types of people want to crawl into the skin of their idol. Make their life their own. That they feel they have full power over that person's life. Truth be told, since I entered the world of KPop fandoms I understand how this can manifest. It's not hard to cross the line from fan, to obsessed. Despite how slow this felt at times, and how much I wanted to shake some sense into our unnamed narrator, I carried on. I guess I kind of understood where she was coming from. To have nothing, to belong to nothing, and then to suddenly find meaning and belonging is a feeling that is too easy to sink deeply into without much thought. Even when she discovered that the people she was spending time with were terrible, she kept choosing them over and over. It's sad, but it's not beyond the realm of reality. I will saw though, it was so very frustrating. If that's what Mayer was going for, then it worked well. The ending killed it for me though. All that time invested, and then the ending was just so lackluster. I almost rated this three stars, but I couldn't forgive that ending. 2.5 Stars An unnamed millennial becomes a part of an over-the-top fan group called ‘The Ivies’ who are obsessed, to put it mildly with Adriana Argento, an Ariana Grande clone pop star. This is probably the hardest review I’ve ever had to write. I always can find something I like about any book I’ve read, but this one left me flat and wishing I could get my time reading back. The writing was over the top, to the point where I would have to reread full passages. I did not like any of the characters, at all. I seriously hope there are no millennials that act like prepubescent girls gone psycho, out there! God help us if there are! This book is listed as a Thriller, but I found it anything but thrilling. Predictable. Slow. I do applaud the author for the premise, I just wish the follow through was better. Thanks to Harlequin Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"In this raucous psychological thriller, a disillusioned millennial joins a cliquey fan club, only to discover that the group is bound together by something darker than devotion. Day after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website--entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by international pop star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's every move. When a colleague notices her obsession, she's invited to join an enigmatic group of adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy candlelit listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group, she gets closer to uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together--while simultaneously losing her grip on reality. With caustic wit and hypnotic writing, this unsparingly critical thrill ride through millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age, and how easy it is to lose yourself in it"--FantasticFiction.com. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The narrator in "Fan Club" does just this when she becomes obsessed with Adriana Argento. However, the deeper she gets into the online world of Adriana superfans, the more things start to spiral.
This book is a look at what can easily happen in today's modern world - and it's mind bending and twisting. And honestly, I loved it. I found myself wrapped up in page after page, unable to put it down... which almost felt like my own personal rabbit hole! ( )