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michichigo's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
TW: Rape, Domestic violence
This book is a prime example for When Men Write Women. It is bad. Everything in the main protagonist Herra’s life is about sex and men. Every phase of her life is sexualized for no reason, starting with her sexual awakening as a child. Reading how a young girl masturbates for the first time and knowing all of that‘s from a male perspective made me very uncomfortable. Later in the book, after she got raped and is still sore from the assault, she‘s immediately smitten by the next guy and craves to have sex with him. WTF.
In general, I found Herra to be very unlikeable, conceited and bitter. She scams people on social media, meddles in her sons’ lives and oversteps their personal boundaries. No wonder they didn’t want to have anything to do with her anymore.
And why does a 400 pages book have 120 chapters? I understand it was a stylistic choice but what was the purpose? All it did was disrupting the reading flow when a new chapter starts every 2 pages. The jumps between the time lines weren’t quite clear either, sometimes both past and present were combined in one chapter.
All in all, this was very disappointing and poorly written. At least the cover is pretty so there’s that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Domestic abuse
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