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Okay, maybe I should not make a hobby out of reviewing LONG books directly after finishing them because right now my opinion is a lot more favorable than it was 2 days ago.
This was.... not my cup of tea. I see what the author was going for - a deep hitting, serious story about the fates of two women. It just did not work for me.
I'm GAY. I LOVE women. I love women so much. But my experience just does not align with the one this author has - and that's okay. I hated, hated, hated the constant reminders of 'Lin Wanyue is a woman, so that's why her heart is so soft. DESPITE being a woman she can be cruel too, being a woman is like THIS'. In the author notes, she says that her personal experience of being a lesbian states that for any attraction to form the gender has to be clear first. Meanwhile, I am attracted to femininity, not the actual gender, so I think we just think of the concept of 'women' very differently and that's what bothered me all throughout the work.
It's a good book - the characters are round, there's hope and there's loss, grief, joy, it spans a whole lifetime. Lots of people will like this. But I'm just not into bittersweet stories like this. I still squealed when the two found each other finally. I was happy for them and I actually REALLY love LWY, I would marry her too. She's so smart but so dumb.
But death looms above everything, this is just a very serious story. It takes itself seriously and there's no comedy relief or a lot of sweetness inbetween to cushion it and that does not work for me very well. I'm spoiled and I want to be spoiled.
This was.... not my cup of tea. I see what the author was going for - a deep hitting, serious story about the fates of two women. It just did not work for me.
I'm GAY. I LOVE women. I love women so much. But my experience just does not align with the one this author has - and that's okay. I hated, hated, hated the constant reminders of 'Lin Wanyue is a woman, so that's why her heart is so soft. DESPITE being a woman she can be cruel too, being a woman is like THIS'. In the author notes, she says that her personal experience of being a lesbian states that for any attraction to form the gender has to be clear first. Meanwhile, I am attracted to femininity, not the actual gender, so I think we just think of the concept of 'women' very differently and that's what bothered me all throughout the work.
It's a good book - the characters are round, there's hope and there's loss, grief, joy, it spans a whole lifetime. Lots of people will like this. But I'm just not into bittersweet stories like this. I still squealed when the two found each other finally. I was happy for them and I actually REALLY love LWY, I would marry her too. She's so smart but so dumb.
But death looms above everything, this is just a very serious story. It takes itself seriously and there's no comedy relief or a lot of sweetness inbetween to cushion it and that does not work for me very well. I'm spoiled and I want to be spoiled.