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A review by takeoutbox
Beauty Plus Pity by Kevin Chong
3.0
*3.5 stars*
"Beauty Plus Pity" is quiet in tone but deep in emotion. There's no formulated plot to this story, just snippets of the events Malcolm goes through as people come in and out of his life. The story is divided into two parts: beauty and pity. Personally, I found the first part to be more "pitiful," where all corners of Malcolm's life come crashing down on him (his dad has died, fiancee has left him, meets the half-sister he's never known about). In the second part of the book, it appears he seems to have found beauty in certain things (even though some aspects continued being crappy).
My only problem with the book is the ending. It's quite hard to describe it without spoiling it, but I felt like the ending is forced upon the story just to add a shock value (which it did). Perhaps if I dig a little deeper, I might find something more meaningful, but for now, it has left me thinking "so what?"
"Beauty Plus Pity" is quiet in tone but deep in emotion. There's no formulated plot to this story, just snippets of the events Malcolm goes through as people come in and out of his life. The story is divided into two parts: beauty and pity. Personally, I found the first part to be more "pitiful," where all corners of Malcolm's life come crashing down on him (his dad has died, fiancee has left him, meets the half-sister he's never known about). In the second part of the book, it appears he seems to have found beauty in certain things (even though some aspects continued being crappy).
My only problem with the book is the ending. It's quite hard to describe it without spoiling it, but I felt like the ending is forced upon the story just to add a shock value (which it did). Perhaps if I dig a little deeper, I might find something more meaningful, but for now, it has left me thinking "so what?"