📘 Our Missing Hearts ✒️ Celeste Ng ( @pronounced_ing ) 🖨 @hachetteaus 🌐 @tandemcollectiveglobal / @tandemcollectiveuk 🛒 https://bit.ly/3RHTKeX AD-PRODUCT ❤❤❤💔❤️🩹 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 extraordinarily vivid. I guess if you're not keen on too much descriptions in your novels, you won't actually like this book. However, for me, her prose was absolutely beautiful. While there were a lot of imageries employed, they all have a purpose and are connected in one ways or another if you try to trace them through the novel. Unfortunately, it's so very sad to acknowledge that the inspiration of this novel is definitely real life incidents; both historically and current(!). Therefore, so many things feel so very familiar and also quite strikingly real. Please do pay attention to the trigger warnings because I expected myself to flinch and I did. Many would not speak out because "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" so thank you to Celeste Ng for writing and providing voice for those who couldn't for "maybe sometimes, the nail that stuck up pierced the foot that stomped down." Thank you, Tandem Collective, for organising & publisher for the copy of the book. Tagging all my buddies in comments 👇 #TandemCollectiveAus #MissingHearts #TandemCollective #TandemCollectiveGlobal #CelesteNG #TandemReadalong #MissingHeartsReadalong #booksandyarn #booksandhearts #bluebooks #dystopian https://www.instagram.com/p/CjzU92lrdpL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
