SYNOPSIS: Just know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That’s why we got a room in the hotel where they were staying. We were not planning to kidnap one of them. Especially not the most useless one. But we had him—his room key, his cell phone, and his secrets. We were not planning on what happened next. We swear. Rating: 4/5
TW! Sexual assault I almost loved this book. Almost. The story, the characters, the psychological aspects playing with your head, the plot twists... It was all SO GOOD. The only thing I disliked about this, and I'm super disappointed about this because it might have become one of my new favourite books otherwise, is that it makes jokes about sexual assault. I really do not appreciate that at all. Multiple times while the kidnapped band member is sat tied up in a chair with a blindfold on, one of the characters sits in his lap, and even licks his face. There's also jokes like "we told you to keep an eye on her so she wouldn't sexually assault him", "it's fine, she's just licking his face". It's just the fact that the victim is a guy that makes it """okay""" to make these jokes apparently, because later on in the book there's a pretty big drama about a girl being sexually assaulted, which is taken seriously. They also invade his privacy by going on the band member's phone and then threaten to out him to the world when they find evidence that he is gay, which is a very sick and gross thing to do. Even if this whole book is just an attempt to show how intense fan culture is, I think this would've been much better left out. So yes, that part is very upsetting and disappointing to me. If you are triggered by sexual assault, definitely steer far away from this book. For the rest, the storyline, the characters and the psychology are all pretty brilliant and I would love to recommend it to everyone, but the sexual assault just doesn't sit right with me. I'm not going to say whom I'd recommend this to then, because everyone can decide for themselves whether they'd still like to read this. Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25184383-kill-the-boy-band Amazon: www.amazon.com/Kill-Boy-Band-Goldy-Moldavsky/dp/0545867479
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