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Revenge by Yōko Ogawa

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jgnchwalinska's review against another edition

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4.0

4,5

rhuntern's review against another edition

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The stories focus more on the characters than the plots, but are so short that there's not really much room to care about their struggles at all. It's well written, but I found it ultimately boring because nothing really ever happens. It unfortunately falls into that literary hole where it wants to focus on the human element but fails to do so.

heated_dragon's review against another edition

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dark sad tense fast-paced

3.75

eym's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

honnari_hannya's review

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3.0

A series of loosely-linked light horror and thriller stories, which reads as if Yoko Ogawa was doing the writing version of an exquisite corpse game. Fun stuff, especially liked the stories that veered more into the speculative end of the scale.