Rebecca Lim
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Rebecca Lim is the author of The Astrologer's Daughter which made the Davitt Awards 2015 shortlists in the category of Young Adult Novel. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Afterlight by Rebecca Lim (2016-04-12) 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 23
- Membres
- 929
- Popularité
- #27,633
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 68
- ISBN
- 111
- Langues
- 3
Trigger warnings: Abusive father, suicide
5/10, looking back at this I can say for sure that even though I think this to be quite well written I will never ever pick this one up again mainly because this is one of the most brutal books I have ever read and only a handful of books can rival its sheer brutality and honestly? This hit way too close to home and I'm still not sure why this won a Children's Book Council of Australia award for a young adult book for 2022, where do I even begin? I wasn't disappointed by this but I felt that it was just so, so bleak and depressing however the ending is just a little bit better. It starts with the main character Wen Zhou who is a child of Chinese parents who came to Australia to apparently look for a better life but still they are struggling however Wen has an opportunity to turn things around. She now has a scholarship to some fancy private school or something like that and she alongside her friend Henry are studying for the entrance exam. What really made this book the heaviest one I've read in a while is Wen's father. And this is the part where I just felt that this was way too familiar to me so this hit me like an emotional truck. Wen's father is quite a horrible and abusive person, to say the least, I won't reveal everything since you must read it to find out but trust me he is what I said he was. Not long after a parent of a person Wen knows dies by suicide and wow does this book deliver emotional hit after hit since after the suicide Wen's father does not react kindly to this since he strongly disapproves of that and he says something along the lines of, "Disgrace!" or "Shame on them!" That was some vitriol I just saw there. Did I mention he shouts a lot? Wen and her mother continue to weather through the storm of feelings and especially abuse and one time Wen's father cracked a chair which I didn't like however in the end it was a little bit rushed as the father did a complete 180 and turned into a good person in not much time at all but at least that ends it on a high note.… (plus d'informations)