Having an adult author be that way? Not cool. Being a teen it may be understandable to fetishize it a little. Okay, I can get being interested in Japanese Culture. There is one, but he is dead and has been way before this story started. There is not one character who is Japanese.
Japan itself is so fetishezed in this book it’s not even funny anymore. Maybe that’ll give you a hint that it is not a Japanese thing. Have you read english YA? How often are there parents present? There are so few where the parents have a role in a story that I tell you about this in my reviews. First thing I wrote down: Antisocial states that it’s unusual and totally a Japanese/Manga/Anime thing for high schoolers to be without their parents. I will mark it though, so you can decide for yourself. There is a slight spoiler but I feel it’s very important to know about this. So where to start… I really don’t know where to start so I’ll try to go chronologically through my notes. So imagine how affected readers will feel with being portrayed this way. But this book is not only badly written, it makes a fetish of Japan and the so-called asexuality representation is plain harmful.
I’ll try to make sense of my notes for you, but summing it up: NO! You could stare for an hour into nothing and you would get more than from reading this book. Review: I don’t even know what’s the worst part of this book. But as their senior year begins, they must decide if they will part ways and return to the dull futures they had planned, or if they will take a risk and leap into a brightly colored future-together. Through a summer of art and friendship, Xander and Skylar learn more about each other, themselves, and their feelings for one another. There’s something about the antisocial artist’s refusal to yield that forces Skylar to acknowledge how much his own orchestrated future is killing him slowly…as is the truth about his gray-spectrum sexuality, which he hasn’t dared to speak aloud, even to himself. Xander himself does plenty of damage too. Skylar’s life has been laid out for him since before he was born, but all it takes is one look at Xander’s artwork, and the veneer around him begins to crack. He came to idyllic, Japanese culture-soaked Benten College to hide and make manga, not to be transformed into a corporate clone in the eleventh hour. Xander Fairchild can’t stand people in general and frat boys in particular, so when he’s forced to spend his summer working on his senior project with Skylar Stone, a silver-tongued Delta Sig with a trust fund who wants to make Xander over into a shiny new image, Xander is determined to resist. Trigger warnings: Bullying, Sexual Harrassment, bad ace rep (maybe more)ĭescription: A single stroke can change your world. Genre: LGBT (m/m, ace character, aroace character), Romance
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