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A review by lillyminasyan
Touching Earth by Rani Manicka
5.0
“The rats ate an island, but we’ll eat a whole planet. Think about it. We really are like rats. We give nothing to any other creature on this earth. We don’t make honey, our milk is only for our own, our flesh, which is supposed to be sweet, we consider too precious to be eaten by another. We don’t know how to make nests out of our saliva. Even after we are dead we won’t allow out skin to be used for leather. We just know how to shit and fuck.”
This book was nothing that I expected it to be. The characters, the description were phenomenal.
I am tired of “pure love” in books. Those young adult books, with perfect people, with perfect characteristics, so not real, that it makes you vomit.
This book on the other hand showed the truth. People who are unconventional, with their unconventional stories and love. Love, that is the real thing. When someone sees your ugly side and still wants you.
Rani Manicka captured the world, where cocaine is dominated. It reminded me of “The Wolf of Wall Street”, first you are successful and you think you will stay the same way. You can quit at any moment, just not now, not today, maybe tomorrow and the tomorrow never comes. The ugly side of this world, filth, prostitution, sex, jealousy, death.
Nutan, Zeenat, Anis, Maggie, Elizabeth, Bruce, Ricky and Francesca--their stories were captivating and I was rooting for them. But this isn’t a book with happy endings.
“The mirror is a dangerous thing. It is sincere in the company of the insincere.”
This book was nothing that I expected it to be. The characters, the description were phenomenal.
I am tired of “pure love” in books. Those young adult books, with perfect people, with perfect characteristics, so not real, that it makes you vomit.
This book on the other hand showed the truth. People who are unconventional, with their unconventional stories and love. Love, that is the real thing. When someone sees your ugly side and still wants you.
Rani Manicka captured the world, where cocaine is dominated. It reminded me of “The Wolf of Wall Street”, first you are successful and you think you will stay the same way. You can quit at any moment, just not now, not today, maybe tomorrow and the tomorrow never comes. The ugly side of this world, filth, prostitution, sex, jealousy, death.
Nutan, Zeenat, Anis, Maggie, Elizabeth, Bruce, Ricky and Francesca--their stories were captivating and I was rooting for them. But this isn’t a book with happy endings.
“The mirror is a dangerous thing. It is sincere in the company of the insincere.”