Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki

4 reviews

grunbean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is a book that you will devour. Yes, that is an intended pun.

The use of food in telling this story pulls you in, and I struggled to put it down. I also struggled to stop my mouth from watering! I’ve seen some comments on the slower parts being too filler like. For me, every page has a kind of story of its own. I don’t think there’s a word in this book that is accidental, or coincidental. The translation is written beautifully. This with the story makes this a book I think I’ll return to again! 

I would be curious to discuss this at a book club, as I find myself wondering Kaiji is a murderer. I think she is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Body shaming, Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Blood, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Murder, Pedophilia, and Injury/Injury detail

franzi_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Infertility, and Body shaming

katndrsn's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, and Suicide

Minor: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

staghunters's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

I had very high hopes for this one and felt like that made this experience worse for me. 

Very promising start. Moves into a certain direction that I was looking forward to read and explore more, but the story changes tracks suddenly in the last stretch of the second act, right after a really tense moment ended in some sort of anti-climax.
For those that have read the book:

This is when Reiko goes to visit and stay with an old acquaintance of Kajii. It reads as if Yuzuki had planned for her to be killed, making this the single but in my opinion most impactful death in this whole story. This doesn't happen, but the way that Reiko is involved in the story is so minimal that she might as well have died.

Getting through the last 100 or so pages was a struggle, since a lot of the interesting stuff happens off-screen or is resolved on a whim and in a passing sentence. 
Rika and Kajii had a really interesting dynamic going on, and during the time that this developed and got more intense I had the most fun. But it is a shame that Yuzuki dropped such an interesting antagonist when a lot of the story still needed to be resolved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Sexism, and Fatphobia

Minor: Pedophilia