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4/5  Trigger Warnings: Mentions of Sexual Assault, grooming, murder, guilt, descriptions of gore  Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fairytale Retelling Published: May 2022 Another spoiler-free review. For a debut novel, Maria Adelmann has done an incredible job.  How to Be Eaten takes the lives of five woman who have lived through modern adaptations of fairytales. These fairytales get a new face with a modern twist.  Some things that people should keep in mind if they wish to read this novel, is that the chapters are pretty long. Each woman has her own chapter about her trauma. A tasteful writing technique was using multiple point of views throughout this book. It isn't the easiest thing to do, but Adelmann was able to execute this beautifully. Each chapter is in third person, however when the character is explaining her trauma, she speaks in first-person. Adelmann speaks well with using fairytales to have a deeper message. One that resonates with many--...

Rating: 4/5  Trigger Warnings: Mentions of rape, child pregnancy, mentions of suicide,  Genre: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary literature, Adult literature, Mystery, Translated Literature (French) "There are attachments so strong that they survive in our memories as if they were physically imprinted in each cell of our bodies..." (Bonidan 174). Inspired by a true story, The Lost Manuscript by Cathy Bonidan is a poetic journey of reading letters between many individuals who all have the same common goal: Read and wonder, who wrote this manuscript.  I felt as if I was reading the secret letters between a mystery of infatuation. They prove that average life can be just as exciting as an action film, just given the circumstances. The Lost Manuscript gives readers these intimate letters to read about the journey this manuscript took. Bonidan did an incredible job writing as well as Emma Ramadan did with the translation.  If you love books that have a poetic message a...

5/5 rating  Genre: Historical Fiction, Contemporary Literature Trigger Warnings: Descriptions of decomposing bodies, profanity, strong descriptions of acts of violence, mentions of sexual assault, mentions of depression.  "After you died I could not hold a funeral, And so my life became a funeral" (Kang 101). As small as this book is, the content within it proves that it is not a light read. This book is a story I would recommend to anyone interested in history.  The heart wrenching true story of Dong-ho is told through the perspective of many individuals. Through these six stories, readers begin to truly understand the pain and desires of those that lived through the Gwangju Uprising. As readers see through the eyes of Dong-ho's best friend, an editor, a prisoner, a factory worker, and even Dong-ho's mother, their hearts are taken through a vortex of emotions. With the inclusion of the sixth point of view, the writer, it allows to see how Han Kang wrote t...