15k reviews for:

Muistipoliisi

Yōko Ogawa

3.77 AVERAGE

maddyboomissypoo's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

august7's review against another edition

3.25

mysterious sad slow-paced

rebecca46's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shelbyrodger's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious sad slow-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: Complicated

kkriebelphan's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective

gin_doe's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lunamundo's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

malalaisee's review against another edition

4.25

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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: Yes

nappingcatt's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

doughnutbooks's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 80%

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I don’t know if it’s the author or just the English translations of her work, but this is her second book that didn’t do it for me. The concept, while promising, wasn’t very compelling in execution. I liked some of the situations that the loss in memories prompted—the old man’s connection to the music box was particularly moving, imo—but it just felt like there was something missing. Am I losing memories? My biggest issue was I think the story could’ve been stronger with a different main character.

It was frustrating that she protected a guy from the memory police by hiding him at her house (which required him to leave his family and live in harsh conditions), only to go out of her way to attract the attention of the memory police while he was there.

It was just silly. I lost interest when that happened. This wasn’t a conscious DNF, but Libby reclaimed it before I finished. In any case, this’ll be the last time I read this author. Not for me.