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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Super heavy story, but I loved it. Read with care because there are some intense and possibly triggering topics.
this book
going into this i heard it was sad but as i was reading i didn’t understand why. the topics are hard but i didn’t realize that the emotions were quietly seeping in until i really looked back at myself. this book is just so so raw, it doesn’t feel like it was telling a story it was just telling. reading this was such a unique experience and it was just so quintessentially asian it hit in all the right places. i absolutely loved it.
going into this i heard it was sad but as i was reading i didn’t understand why. the topics are hard but i didn’t realize that the emotions were quietly seeping in until i really looked back at myself. this book is just so so raw, it doesn’t feel like it was telling a story it was just telling. reading this was such a unique experience and it was just so quintessentially asian it hit in all the right places. i absolutely loved it.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This had me choked up and VERY SEEN.
Whilst in many aspects I am different to this protagonist, I also felt so seen. A microscope into my brain and a mouthpiece for my deep space thoughts I could never articulate or thought I was crazy to think.
This follows two sisters – Jayne and June. They are both now adults living in New York after eagerly leaving their immigrant Korean parents running a restaurant in Texas. They have a strained relationship so when Jayne sees her older sister for the first time in a year, she finds out her sister has cancer.
This is sarcastic and biting and sad and infuriating and validating and relatable occasionally funny.
<b>“People don’t really want to know how you’re doing. They want to wait until you’re done telling them so they can tell you how they’re doing.”
</b>
This talks about constantly seeking a place where you belong. Trying to get away from your previous life. But maybe it’s not the where, but the who. The people and the connections and the care. A support network is what really saves you in the end.
Ultimately, people become your home.
This also gives you an insight into the Korean-American experience and how fetishised girls are. How alienated they feel. How pressured they feel by both their families, academia, the West.
I just wish it were longer and had a more fleshed out and satisfying ending.
Major trigger warnings for a range of things.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
