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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoy reading it.it keeps giving me hope that there might be someone but nah.the pattern of finding cabins and every cabin has the same story was a little boring.Overall the story was easy to follow. I would have loved to get answers but I kind of like it that the story the audience to imag ne their own answers.
As we're reading the story so it is okay to imagine that at the end there was someone who crossed the spiral stairs .....who saw a proud corpse....sitting on her throne made of pillows....and her story lying on the table as a proof that she didn't accept her fate... she was determined to find the answers till her last breath.
It was an interesting character though.
As we're reading the story so it is okay to imagine that at the end there was someone who crossed the spiral stairs .....who saw a proud corpse....sitting on her throne made of pillows....and her story lying on the table as a proof that she didn't accept her fate... she was determined to find the answers till her last breath.
It was an interesting character though.
challenging
emotional
reflective
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
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:
Complicated
Beautifully written but so many unanswered questions!
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
was good. this review is written a few months after i finished it, but i remember i thought about it for a while after finishing.
i don't think "forty women trapped in an underground cage" would've prepared me for what i was about to experience. it is that, but to me, the book at its core, is about survival, community, humanity and hope.
it is told by the unnamed narrator, "the child", that is being trapped in an underground bunker, in a cage with 39 other women. unlike the women, the child doesn't know if she has a life before the cage. all she remembered was the life in the cage. there are strict rules in the cage, including how they are prohibited to be too close to one another, both physically and mentally. it was hard to form connection when the ties to communicate has been cut off. but they learned to live with the situation. when at last, they managed to escape the cage, they form community and the child played an important role in their survival.
outside the cage, a strange and lonely world awaits them. surviving is no longer a matter with what to do but also to what extent do you want to hold on. with the community that they built, they keep on living despite it all.
this book also holds an important message of how crucial it is for human to communicate, to talk and share ideas. it keeps the mind alive and the soul tethered to the body. one of the scenes i remember vividly is when the child finally found a book and it delighted her so much she felt fatigue. i felt so happy for her too.
the book does have this post-apocalyptic, kind of otherworldly setting but it is to set up the story rather than to create a world around it. there are so many speculation, questions that went unanswered, and kept you from ever forgetting the book. some might find this unsettling, but i personally felt content with this direction, as i was able to make my own theory about the world they live in.
this is a powerful book that will haunt me for the rest of my life. the child will forever live in a corner of my mind, and heart.
it is told by the unnamed narrator, "the child", that is being trapped in an underground bunker, in a cage with 39 other women. unlike the women, the child doesn't know if she has a life before the cage. all she remembered was the life in the cage. there are strict rules in the cage, including how they are prohibited to be too close to one another, both physically and mentally. it was hard to form connection when the ties to communicate has been cut off. but they learned to live with the situation. when at last, they managed to escape the cage, they form community and the child played an important role in their survival.
outside the cage, a strange and lonely world awaits them. surviving is no longer a matter with what to do but also to what extent do you want to hold on. with the community that they built, they keep on living despite it all.
this book also holds an important message of how crucial it is for human to communicate, to talk and share ideas. it keeps the mind alive and the soul tethered to the body. one of the scenes i remember vividly is when the child finally found a book and it delighted her so much she felt fatigue. i felt so happy for her too.
the book does have this post-apocalyptic, kind of otherworldly setting but it is to set up the story rather than to create a world around it. there are so many speculation, questions that went unanswered, and kept you from ever forgetting the book. some might find this unsettling, but i personally felt content with this direction, as i was able to make my own theory about the world they live in.
this is a powerful book that will haunt me for the rest of my life. the child will forever live in a corner of my mind, and heart.
"Then, something strange happened inside me, I wanted to feel her arms around me and it was so sudden, so unexpected, that I was overcome. I threw myself into her arms before I realised what I was doing."
I genuinely feel that I will never experience what this book made me feel. It's so strange for me to find books that I relate to so intently and deeply with, this book will forever stick with. How odd that although me and the main character can be so different we are also so alike in so many ways. The ending was difficult because a part of me wanted to get answers but like real life is so many of us won't receive them. It's the disappointing part of life that we have to endure and this book sort of made me come in terms with that.
I genuinely feel that I will never experience what this book made me feel. It's so strange for me to find books that I relate to so intently and deeply with, this book will forever stick with. How odd that although me and the main character can be so different we are also so alike in so many ways. The ending was difficult because a part of me wanted to get answers but like real life is so many of us won't receive them. It's the disappointing part of life that we have to endure and this book sort of made me come in terms with that.
I don’t know if there is a story of a woman’s personhood in the world more completely dignifying than this