I'm leaving this unrated (maybe for now, maybe forever) because I have a lot of conflicting feelings about My Heart Underwater.

I don't consider myself #ownvoices for this book because the main character is Filipino-American, but I want to recognize that majority of this story is set in the Philippines - specifically, Quezon City, where I stayed for nearly seven years. So I will be commenting on how the setting is portrayed.

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I remember that phrase - those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it, or something. But what if there's nothing about you in the history you study? What if what you've done is so off-the-charts bad, nothing you studied could have warned you or prepared you to avoid it?

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Initial thoughts: