Ough... A good book. Couldn't stop thinking of tragedies while reading this, about how "a tragedy is the story of a human growing into his death mask. What has been done is too total to be undone, or even regretted; it defines the doer once and for all and renders the future impossible." You know from the first page what is going to happen, you see the people's actions and decisions throughout the story and can guess how the story will end and that made it so much devastating to read. Rachel Heng did a good job of setting out the end in the very beginning but still keeping me hooked for another 500 pages. There was much i liked about characterisation and the plot and also some parts i did not about pacing and the use of magic realism but ultimately very pleased with this.