Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Podziemie pamięci by Yōko Ogawa

45 reviews

ye_li's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The Memory Police is a very existential story. You watch the characters slowly become empty shells until they are only fragments—can you even consider them human by the end? The Memory Police isn't a bad book by any means, but it isn't extraordinary either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

bonnienoire's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Confinement, and Ableism

Moderate: Dementia and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual assault and Infidelity

kstericker's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Infidelity, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

seasidess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

It's a devastating story about people leaning on each other in the midst of tragedy. 

I read it in Portuguese and I thought the scenery description was great, also the main characters are very sweet and lovable. It's desolating how there's a complete lack of control to change what happens to that island and to them. Who's making that people starve to death and why? What happened to the rest of the world? How were they controlling everyone's mind? That's what frustrated me the most when reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Grief, and Ableism

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Rape

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Very unsettling 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

Moderate: Police brutality

solitary's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Police brutality, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity

jubean's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity

nila's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

My feelings on the book hasn't quite landed yet. On one hand, it's an original and interesting story, but on the other hand there's a vagueness to the plot that I'm not sure I like... The whole book is beautifully written as well, so it's still a joy to read it, but I just wanted more answers 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual content

circesbooked's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity

elisamorvena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Captivating, atmospheric and unsettling story. The ending was very strange but somehow worked. I would have wished for more explanation on why and how everything came to be. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Chronic illness, Death, and Medical content