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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
another natsuo kirino book touching on the ills of japanese society, once again with a focus on the women's struggles underneath a sexist society and where it can drive them, how it shifts them. i enjoy being able to get a glimpse of different moments through different perspectives, the contradictions of each character, but even then it isn't my favorite work of natsuo kirino's. i don't know if it's the translation, but the writing wasn't getting to me this time around.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a book club book & nobody was a fan. The translation wasn't very good, the main character was hard to identify with & the story was bizarre.
A book full of contradictions that you can’t help but get swept up in. I love piecing together information and I love multiple versions of events told from different point of views. There was so much unreliability that I don’t really know what was real but I liked that and I liked trying to deduce what was the truth. It was interesting reading about sex work in Japan and I’m curious if it is accurate.
I did liked this book and I think Kirino is quite good to write compelling character and their psyche however it's so long, at the end of the book I was too bored to care
dark
mysterious
slow-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
dark
mysterious
reflective
challenging
dark
sad
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
I'm not sure why I finished this book. I guess you could say it's well written? I don't know...Every character in this book is entirely unsympathetic and loathsome.