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Out by Natsuo Kirino

15 reviews

jazz03's review

dark funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

I support women’s rights AND wrongs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism

evaskov's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

really loved the way this book slowly builds to this extreme boiling point in the ending. it takes its time to get there but it truly is like the analogy of the frog and boiling water. the tension rises so slowly that you don’t even notice a change until you think back to where it started. 

for various reasons i didn’t appreciate the very very ending. like the last 10 pages basically. Masakos development takes a turn for the worst and I didn’t like a lot of the implications behind it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, Kidnapping, Death, Body horror, Misogyny, and Body shaming

Moderate: Alcohol, Excrement, and Alcoholism

mnstr_qn's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I don't know how to feel about this book. ... I found it gripping, depressing, horrifying even, and I couldn't put it down. The ending was very meh but even then....it's going to haunt me. Would I recommend it? To psychology students, maybe. It's extremely dark. The characters aren't even likable and yet you might find yourself drawn in by them anyway. It's not very fast, but the way it was written kept me intrigued. Definitely not for everyone, and be warned before you go in - bring a flashlight and plenty of batteries, it's pitch black in there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Gore, Murder, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

poubelleboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Beh, che dire. “Le quattro casalinghe di Tokyo” non si fa mettere giù. Mentre non lo leggevo fantasticavo di starlo leggendo e mentre lo leggevo non volevo smettere. Direi che quello che mi ha tenuto attaccato è stata la facilità con cui ci si può rispecchiare nei personaggi principali, le quattro casalinghe. Sono persone tutto sommato regolari con problemi che molti hanno ma all’improvviso vengono risucchiate in una situazione assolutamente straordinaria che mi ha fatto chiedere cosa farei io al loro posto. E poi è anche semplicemente intrattenente.

Il finale… è strano. Non capisco le motivazioni di Masako per aver improvvisamente cambiato opinione e sentimenti su Satake. La mia interpretazione è che si è accorta che entrambi cercavano la libertà e si è sentita vicina a lui per questo. Ma pensavo che la libertà cercata da Masako fosse la libertà di vivere la sua vita lasciandosi alle spalle una famiglia di cui non si sentiva più parte, che mi sembra ben diversa dalla libertà di Satake di possedere e uccidere donne. A meno che Masako non anelasse a una libertà dalla morale, che potrebbe anche essere, considerato che ha preso al volo la prima occasione per fare qualcosa di illegale. Non so, opinioni?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Stalking, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Abandonment, Xenophobia, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

cariboubob's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Alcoholism and Stalking

celbl8o's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual content

hachecubed's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

colpenbewley's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It took a little while for me to get used to the writing as you can tell by the phrasing that it is translated. However, I did enjoy the story to a point as I found the plot quite hard to predict and I enjoyed the dynamic between the female characters.

Where the story lost me was the violence and sexual repression and this being enjoyed and embraced by the women themselves. I found it staggering that a woman has written this.

The darkness of the novel and the violence did not bother me. But the way this was supposedly welcomed by the women just struck me as odd, unlikely and made me dismissive of the novel as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Violence, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Stalking

Minor: Alcoholism

lsmith36's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.25

This book was not as graphic and wild as I thought it would be, but was still gripping and kept me involved in the story until the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcoholism

lisahoeflinger's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

2.5

Slight spoiler: Slow tension built throughout the story. I didn't feel as if the tension was really strong enough to pull me through the book. The answers I wanted I didn't receive. Too many holes in the plot. With all of the description given to each character, I don't feel as if the characters were fully developed. The ending: Not all of the character story lines were wrapped up. Raping a woman only to reveal she "loved" him? The ending didn't make sense and was just for shock value. What exactly did she "love" about him. He was just like her? Sad. This had potential.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Grief, Fatphobia, Rape, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, and Addiction