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V polévce miso

Ryū Murakami

3.53 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i loved the tension in the first half, then the tension finally boiled over and it just got a bit tedious. still had a wonderful time and this book did make me feel a bit sick with how descriptive the writing became. 
adventurous dark mysterious
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4.5 ⭐

*slowly laughing* hahah what the f-

This is the first book of the other Murakami's that I read and it's nice to now know that there are two Murakamis that I intend on reading more of.

Miso Soup takes us, through the eyes of narrator Kenji and his suspicious client Frank, on a tour of Tokyo's red light district. We might girls in various stages of undress and experience culture shock between Frank's Americanness and the Japanese world around us. But Frank's money is quite literally soaked with blood, and strange murders have recently been reported.

This book was "no plot just vibes" until about 3/4 through when the violence suddenly began. And then there were more vibes, this time eerie and breathtaking and terrifying.
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Recommended if you like slow burn books featuring terrible people doing terrible things for few reasons other than "it's fun" and are looking to expand your repertoire of translated fiction (I read this in french). 4 stars.
dark tense fast-paced
dark medium-paced
dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No