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miynv_'s review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, and Confinement
Minor: Racism and Medical content
roraisabella's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
such a well written, and raw story about a mother and daughter relationship. Alice Pung is a great writer and iāll be for sure reading more from her.Ā
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Pregnancy, Racism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse
stassiaustin's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
ONE HUNDRED DAYS by Alice PungĀ
CW: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Gaslighting.Ā
What a rollercoaster ride this book puts you through. I read this book relatively quickly as I needed to see how the story progressed. Pung has magnificently crafted a story of love, loss, jealousy and how they can be presented in warped ways.Ā
OHD explores the complex relationship between mothers and their daughters and how they each navigate growing independence. Ultimately I loved Karunaās journey and how she grew into herself when she became a mother and how the love for her child gave her a newfound purpose that had been stripped away.Ā
A confronting but beautiful read.Ā
CW: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Gaslighting.Ā
What a rollercoaster ride this book puts you through. I read this book relatively quickly as I needed to see how the story progressed. Pung has magnificently crafted a story of love, loss, jealousy and how they can be presented in warped ways.Ā
OHD explores the complex relationship between mothers and their daughters and how they each navigate growing independence. Ultimately I loved Karunaās journey and how she grew into herself when she became a mother and how the love for her child gave her a newfound purpose that had been stripped away.Ā
A confronting but beautiful read.Ā
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Child abuse
Moderate: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
clarezillaa's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Medical content and Pregnancy
carleesi's review
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
I absolutely inhaled this book. Beautifully written with such raw emotion.Ā
I found it very hard to be okay with how Karunaās mother treated her. It didnāt matter that it came from love, it was psychological and emotional abuse and manipulation. Every time Karuna almost got help my heart squeezed with hope. Iām glad her mother changed but that doesnāt make it okay.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Confinement
kateybellew's review
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
4.0
The story of a 16 year old Karuna who falls pregnant in 1980s Melbourne. Her Chinese-Filipino mother is overprotective to the point of abuse, while her white Australian father is passive and largely absent, reneging his responsibilities. Alice Pung captured so well the mind and feelings of teenage Karuna and the claustrophobic setting she was forced to live in, all while she tried to establish (and hold onto) a sense of self under the oppressive thumb of her judgmental mother. It also demonstrates some struggles that seem to be common in migrant and first-generation families finding their place between cultural heritage and assimilation. Overall, a confronting and uncomfortable book executed really well. I canāt wait to read more from Alice.
"Thereās not much for me to do now but remember stuff from my past. āRe-member-ingā sounds like putting arms and legs back together. It makes me think of that bad egg Humpty Dumpty, how no one could make him whole again after he shattered. I know I have to break open for you to come out, but I donāt want to think about that.ā p. 155
āThe worse thing is being forced to lie in bed like a sick person when I am so full of this feral vitality. No wonder all those ladies in Victorian-era novels were depressed and moribund. They couldnāt walk around, work, play or anything. At least they could read, I thought resentfully. Mary Shelley and those sickly BrontĆ« sisters even wrote entire books. Then I realise that those women all had dead mothers.ā p. 178
"Thereās not much for me to do now but remember stuff from my past. āRe-member-ingā sounds like putting arms and legs back together. It makes me think of that bad egg Humpty Dumpty, how no one could make him whole again after he shattered. I know I have to break open for you to come out, but I donāt want to think about that.ā p. 155
āThe worse thing is being forced to lie in bed like a sick person when I am so full of this feral vitality. No wonder all those ladies in Victorian-era novels were depressed and moribund. They couldnāt walk around, work, play or anything. At least they could read, I thought resentfully. Mary Shelley and those sickly BrontĆ« sisters even wrote entire books. Then I realise that those women all had dead mothers.ā p. 178
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse and Confinement
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