![]() ![]() Most of them were saying it was like the real stuff and this wasn’t a joke. Nevertheless, I would recommend this fast-paced, dark, and tense book to anyone who likes to read mystery and also further have an insight on the POC community, even if it is through fiction.So before I downloaded this app, I read the reviews. I understood there was a need for this chaotic order but it made it a bit harder to connect the plot points as its scattered all over. My only con would be the non-chronological order (before, one year before the before, after). The story is not just your regular type of thriller/mystery its tightly interwoven with race, community, and politics. There were breadcrumbs as to what could have happened to Monday but those breadcrumbs were all over, creating numerous options as to what had happened. The story revolves around Claudia and Monday, their friendship through highs and lows, the disappearance, the year before discovery, and the aftermath of it all. Stumbled upon this book by chance while I was choosing books to order online and got hooked with the blurb given. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone? It blossoms from word to word and there's so many underlying messages that this book has stained itself in my mind and will definitely be a re-read time and time again. It was like I had a first hand view of grooming but not in a sexual setting, although there were underlying notes of it. I felt disturbed all throughout the book. He was as pure as snow, as blank as a canvas, without a speck of reality marring his soul. And that was the cause of it all the same with Dorian Gray. If I had read this during my early teens wherein I was pure and malleable to outside forces, I believe I would have believed the sayings presented by Lord Henry. It's a cycle basically, what we become through outside influence is what we bring out to influence the world. It's an in-depth dive to hedonistic sins and how that in turn moulds the surrounding environment. It's an in-depth dive of the human soul and how it moulds with outside forces, no matter how good or bad that force is. I spent the entirety of my night digesting this book, its meaning, and how disturbingly rationale it is for me as the reader. Kuang's Babel will be a definite re-read to further dissect the emotions and hope that it has given me. There are a number of phrases that will be forever engrained in my head as I move forward. R.F Kuang's writing was gripping and filled with academic quotes and lingos that were needed to enhance the plot, the analogy, and the foreshadowing. Babel made me look back in my own culture and have the need to further know the forgotten customs beyond what was thought in textbooks. Babel made me think of my country's current state and how there's a lot more needed to be done for the plight of the marginalized and the poor. And I may never will.īabel made me think of my ancestors who fought and sacrificed their lives for the freedom I am currently enjoying. It's been over a day since I've finished this book and I still don't have the words to explain the emotions I've felt and the grip each word has on me. ![]() Because our own culture was deemed too barbaric and not up to their own standards. As an individual belonging to a country that has been colonized by multiple white colonizers, this made me grieve on the richness of my country's own culture that has been forgotten and wiped out due to colonization. I've been subconsciously putting off reading this book due to its heavy storyline of colonialism, betrayal and courage to fight for one's own motherland. I kept thinking they were the love thats so magnetic the couple that would be slow dancing in a burning room and that’s not ideal and lasting They were twin flames, will burn each other raw with the rate they were going.
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