A review by redvelveting
The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

funny lighthearted medium-paced

2.5

The aunties of this book are reminiscent of my own and even my mother lol. Not a read to take seriously, complete with cheesy and sometimes trashy comedy; not everything needs to be sophisticated anyhow :) My biggest issues with this book were with the number of characters (we constantly switch between subplots, making it hard to keep up sometimes) and the frequency of sentences along the lines of “and you’ll never guess what happened next!!!!” It’s fine occasionally but damn sometimes I just want to find out myself without needing it to be announced beforehand. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Colonisation, War, and Classism