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Start date: August 1, 2023

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Oct 16, 2022 Tien rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, dystopia, by-the-month-22, dragons-spotted-in-the-wild, tandem-collective

This is my first Celeste Ng and mostly, because I wasn't too keen on her earlier books. Contemporary isn't quite my cup of tea plus they just sound sooo painful/heartbreaking for me. Not that this one was any better, tbh, but something about the dystopian world plus having reader buddies for support (thanks, all!) were all it took to convince me. And... I. am. very. very. glad I did!

First of all, I'm just so impressed by the her creative descriptive imageries. There were so much in variety and e ...more

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Jan 30, 2023 Kim Benouski rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dystopian-satire-apocalyptic

This was an interesting switch for Ng. This dystopian story reminded me of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close mixed with Handmaid’s Tale.

A boy uses clues to search for his mother in Nee York City mixed with a future where China is so hated that all Asians in America are in danger and their children are often taken.

The beginning was a bit slow, and the fact that Ng chose not to use quotation marks annoyed me. However, Ng’s writing is beautiful, and her dystopia was frightening.

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