Superfan
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- Erwartet am 19. Feb. 2026
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- 12,99 €
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'Writing that is deceptively perceptive, yearning and engaging all at once . . . Superfan riveted me'
RACHEL KHONG, bestselling author of Real Americans
'Addictive and seductive. I read it and immediately wanted to recommend it to all of my friends.'
TASHA CORYELL, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer
'Dazzles and captivates while raising vital questions about fandom and celebrity'
KIRSTIN CHEN, bestselling author of Counterfeit
They’ve never met, but this is the way it is supposed to be: they belong to each other.
Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass: America’s new K-pop inspired boyband obsession. Soon she is memorising the lyrics to every song and staying up late to watch their livestreams, hoping that her favourite member, bad-boy Halo, will see her in the comments.
On the other side of the screen, Halo is also becoming addicted to the adoration from his fans, using their love to paper over the cracks of the tragic past he is determined to keep hidden.
It’s a perfect love, until Minnie is drawn to a shadowy fan community who believe they need to protect the band members from a dark conspiracy. As Minnie becomes increasingly determined to discover the secrets that Halo is keeping, the line between fandom and obsession begins to blur.
But if the truth comes out, could either of them survive it?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Zhang (Four Treasures of the Sky) explores the line between fandom and idol worship in her sharp sophomore outing. Minnie, a college freshman, feels isolated until she discovers the boy band HOURglass, who draw inspiration from K-pop. She obsessively follows the group online and connects there with fellow fans, finding a reprieve from her real-world failures. Zhang alternates Minnie's story with that of band member Eason, the group's "bad boy," who's harboring a dark secret involving his older sister, Faye, which the group's Svengali-like mastermind, a record label executive known as The Duke, uses as blackmail to keep him in line. The plot verges on melodrama, whether in revelations about Faye via flashback or a present-day attack on another HOURglass member by a rabid fan. Still, Zhang draws intriguing connections between Minnie and Eason by showing how they each become increasingly dependent on HOURglasses's fame, as Minnie derives satisfaction from her deepening parasocial relationship with the band, while Eason comes to rely on fans' adoration, to the point that he finds it "increasingly difficult to leave the stage." It's a perceptive take on the limits to a relationship between fan and star.
