What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott

3.7 AVERAGE

elyses_little_library's profile picture

elyses_little_library's review

3.25
emotional informative mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

jessreading1's review

4.0
Inspired by a true crime this booked is about a young woman looking for answers into her mother’s death. A gut wrenching look at betrayal and a family torn apart by secrets. The author gives you beautiful scenery and heartfelt human interaction between each page.

hannahbrennan's review

4.25
adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lauramooney's review against another edition

3.75
sad slow-paced

lyn_g's review against another edition

2.5
informative mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
meghan_b's profile picture

meghan_b's review

3.0
challenging informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
Expand filter menu Content Warnings

helenduriez's review against another edition

4.0
Recommended by Tristan. Great characters, fascinating premise and setting. The shadow of death adds a chill to otherwise happy scenes and nothing is black-and-white, which I like.
erinpopstar's profile picture

erinpopstar's review

4.0
“What I realized is that I am all that is left. All of these stories, photographs, and facts reside within me. There are tangible things that remain: the stub of her plane ticket to Hokkaido, her shoes, her packets of scent, his letters. These things tell the story of a life, of many lives intertwined, but I am the point at which they meet.” (Page 329)

What a gorgeous book! I felt like I couldn’t help but be swept up in this love story even knowing it ends in murder. The author won an anthropological award for her research on this book, but I actually felt that the intensity of detail on Japanese culture/ law/ geography took away from the beauty of the story itself. That is the sole reason I gave this less than 5 stars, as I think this was a truly lush and gorgeously written book.
bookedbynicole's profile picture

bookedbynicole's review

3.0
An affair, a death, a daughter seeking answers - this book was a simmer (rather than a burn) throughout and the descriptive writing made me feel like I was in a Ghibli movie (if Ghibli films involved murder and crimes of passion). It’s a slow build but I didn’t find myself skipping parts.

emmavardy2's review

4.5
challenging emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated