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When sleeping women wake mountains will move”

🥰Thank you @ballantinebooks for the gifted ARC!

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📖Title: When Sleeping Women Wake
✍️Author: Emma Pei Yin
📅Pub Date: June 17, 2025

3️⃣This book had me super excited for three main reasons! One, it’s a debut and I love nothing more than a great debut! Second, it revolves around unlikely friendships. Third, it’s about a part of history I know little about: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.

📖I learned so much I didn’t know about that time period in Hong Kong. So many of the WWII books I’ve read have been set in France, Germany, etc. that it was very interesting to read about familiar time periods from a different perspective.

📖The plot was a little slower paced in my opinion, but the real reason I wanted to keep reading on and on was because of how connected I became to the characters. The pacing at the end was perfect and the ending was wonderful!

👌Overall, I’m glad I read it, I learned a lot, and I can’t wat to see what she writes next!

❓Are there any time periods you’d like to read/learn more about?