Are you more 🌙mythology or 🌞?
A Chinese Filipino family YA novel with powerful emotion and sad moments but uplifting end.
@literarymediatours and author @selina.libi thank you for the copy. My review:
5 stars
Very captivating novel with a beautiful prose. I loved how the main character is so fierce and brave and takes care of her mother, although her mother doesn't find her daughter's love and company enough and is always rushing from one bad relationship into the next.
The daughter suffers a lot, she has terrible migraines and is a late bloomer into womanhood.
As the novel progresses, we understand how the mother feels and usually deals with her frustrations and misery.
The novel gains tension when the possibility of social services taking Jasmine away becomes an issue, so the young girl feels even more pressure to "save" her mom.
Her mother filled her head with wonderful stories, legends, and Filipino mythology, and being an artist, Jasmine brings to the reality of her life (sometimes miserable and sad) imagination: she sees the people who she thinks want to harm her deform into mythological monsters. This dichotomy of magic and myth balances well with the harshness of her life.
Some elements of the plot are predictable, but it only makes us more invested in reading, so we reach that moment when Jasmine realizes the truth about her mother's past. I love that it's very focused on Jasmine and her perspective. Her journey is not only physical to discover a place to call home but also a coming-of-age one.
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