Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2025

"Idol, Burning" by Rin Usami

An audio novella

The narrator's a fan of a boy in a band. The band-members are colour-coded. Her colour is blue. The more merch she buys the more points she gets towards a handshake with her hero. She buys 50 CDs. She encourages others to votes for him so he'll do the solo. Her happiness depends on his happiness. But in the press they say that he hit a woman. He goes from being top in the voting to the bottom. She wakes up in hospital having neglected her health. He announces that the group is disbanding and he's retiring. It's rumoured that he's engaged to the girl he reputedly hit. She tracks him to his flat.

I don't see much in it.

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