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A review by ipsita
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
3.0
FINALLY done with this book and tbh I'm okay with the way it went and ended, but I guess I just expected too much from this book. Even though I liked the writing and the author's attempt at focusing on topics like racism and Asian Parents' expectations and controls, and when I related to them so much as well. Still the way this book just brushes past serious issues like depression and suicide so easily without even stressing over them, and the way they were portrayed, though they didn't focus the MCs but still this could've been so much more. It felt like the author was trying to add everything in a single story and was in a hurry to make everything alright??
And to me, I found myself starting to get more and more frustrated with the main characters, Ever and Rick, and their actions that were a bit too disappointing. The only character I liked was Xavier's and wished he was given more justice in the story. This is why I hate when authors push the whole love triangle agenda way too hard on characters that it only end up making it worse and worse.
And not just that I felt so disconnected throughout the entire half of the book while the story seemed so obvious it didn't stop dragging to the end instead of just getting sooner to the point.
IDK if I've become way too hard on books these days or I've just gotten really bad at picking up books that only end up disappointing me after cause I've heard so many good things about this book and I didn't see anything that went well by this, I guess this book just wasn't for me. So I'm giving this one 3.5
And to me, I found myself starting to get more and more frustrated with the main characters, Ever and Rick, and their actions that were a bit too disappointing. The only character I liked was Xavier's and wished he was given more justice in the story. This is why I hate when authors push the whole love triangle agenda way too hard on characters that it only end up making it worse and worse.
And not just that I felt so disconnected throughout the entire half of the book while the story seemed so obvious it didn't stop dragging to the end instead of just getting sooner to the point.
IDK if I've become way too hard on books these days or I've just gotten really bad at picking up books that only end up disappointing me after cause I've heard so many good things about this book and I didn't see anything that went well by this, I guess this book just wasn't for me. So I'm giving this one 3.5