Kanyah’s Reviews > Beauty Is a Wound > Status Update

Its becoming harder to read this book. the three sisters, Alamanda, Maya Dewi, and Adinda, have all lived such tragic lives full of pain and suffering at even the young ages of 21, 18, and 16. this book makes me feel anger, pain, and the need to punch every man in this book, in the face.

horrified.

this book is becoming harder and harder to read, every man in this book is overcome by lust and greed and ultimately lead to brutal sickening sexual violence. in a way, it makes sense for the book, becuase every woman in the book is beyond beautiful, which either leads to them becoming prisoners of war, raped, or dying, the title of the book is beauty is a wound, which is sickening and heart breaking.

i’d say that every page of this book has a new story in it, now, a story of a prisoner war camp, a story of trying to hold on to the things you cannot keep, a story of survival. but at this point the idea of women coming together no matter what, is the most prominent theme that i can see..

wow what a start, a woman rising from the dead, the story of her and her “hideous” child who she named beauty. i am nervous and excited to see how it turns into a story of more than just that, but i am already very intrigued.