15.1k reviews for:

Muistipoliisi

Yōko Ogawa

3.77 AVERAGE

knason's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

greenlemontree's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

emilylstevens's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

zkoch's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

christyc's review against another edition

3.5

reflective sad medium-paced

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A very unusual read. The last 10% got really weird I can’t lie, I wish it had a bit more going on throughout however 

lcj3's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

claudiavk's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious reflective 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

coopercodes's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 I think it was a brilliant metaphor and exploration of authoritarianism and the connection of humanity through art (writing) and how important art is to identity.
Theres so many layers of things here I could talk about.
But I ultimately found it dragged on, and while the prose was brilliant, I did get a little bored through the second half as it seemed to just keep going on about the same core themes, it didn’t really expand too much overall.

andersonmichael's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

patjam's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated