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A unique take on vampires. I found it dragged a bit in the middle and the metaphor was heavy-handed at times, but it pulled through in the end. Lydia's loneliness came through on every page. Quite a few passages had me putting down the book to sit with what I just read.

I didn't love the ending, but I'm not sure if any other ending would have been more fitting. It felt abrupt when the rest of the book was very meandering.
½
Overly long and a bit repetitive but enjoyable, held up by Yoder's writing style, which made parts that dragged on more bearable. I loved how grotesque it was, and I love how angry Nightbitch is in every line.

I felt like the ending wrapped things up far too neatly. Could have taken off a hundred pages and it would have worked better, I think.
I'm a Fan seemed slow at first but eventually I got into it. It's about an unnamed narrator sleeping with an unnamed celebrity who is married, 'the man I want to be with', and the narrator obsessively social media stalks/sometimes actually stalks one of the celebrity's other lovers, 'the woman I am obsessed with'. She picks apart her own relationships and the man she wants to be with's relationships through the lens of race, class, and gender.

The writing style, which I loved, and the lack of any named characters highlighted the narrator's total loss of herself in her obsession. It sort of seemed like I was reading her diary. On the other hand sometimes felt like the narrator wasn't a real character; her inner monologue often felt so contrived I couldn't convince myself it was a person thinking those things rather than the author creating a blank slate for which to project their own thoughts onto. I found the ending unsatisfying but I am also not sure if there is any ending to that story that could have been satisfying?

Overall I enjoyed it more than I thought I would and the narrator endeared herself to me quickly.
½