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nadia_ligda 's review for:
Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
A dystopian novel with haunting descriptions of the "present" but with a somewhat dry couple of chapters in the middle that, like other reviewers, I found a bit of a struggle to read through.
I think the author's representation of the "enemy within" that is needed to support authoritarian regimes is very powerful, as well as the slippery slope of "us and them" but, because she is referring to actual ethnic groups and states, the parts of the book that describe the past, ie what led to the "Crisis" and the aftermath that gave birth to PACT feel contrived, even if narrated by Bird's mother.
So, could not give it a five star but still beautiful writing and story telling.
I think the author's representation of the "enemy within" that is needed to support authoritarian regimes is very powerful, as well as the slippery slope of "us and them" but, because she is referring to actual ethnic groups and states, the parts of the book that describe the past, ie what led to the "Crisis" and the aftermath that gave birth to PACT feel contrived, even if narrated by Bird's mother.
So, could not give it a five star but still beautiful writing and story telling.