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Thank you to Penguin Random House for this advance copy. My review remains completely honest without external influence.
The concept for Bad Influence is great, utilizing one of the biggest social drivers of the generation to tell the story of clout cThank you to Penguin Random House for this advance copy. My review remains completely honest without external influence.
The concept for Bad Influence is great, utilizing one of the biggest social drivers of the generation to tell the story of clout chasing. We follow Charlotte's perspective as she finds a way to build this brand and this persona, desperately motivated to stand out but to also support her family despite some of the hard feelings she has for them. I think this subtlety of filial piety embedded in Charlotte is worth pointing out in my review, because the eldest child of immigrant families are often the ones that carries this obligation of providing care or resources until it can be shared with siblings (if they even can).
That said, there were still parts of this book that left me feeling unintrigued and also a little frustrated. I will acknowledge that this story is intended to be read and felt in the shoes of a teenager with little adult supervision, a near-secret identity and a frontal love still in the midst of developing. For what it was intended to be, I think Ahn did a pretty good job creating this story....more
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