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3.06 AVERAGE
3.06 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Excellent writing - don’t come into this expecting a mystery - it won’t be solved and it’s not really the point of the story imo. This is a character study of a broken marriage, the wife’s reflection on that while mixed with the grief of loss - complicated emotional exploration.
Kitamura has such a cultivated and polished literary style. I just got swept up in the narrator's many wonderings and anxieties about marriage and death. I felt so deeply inside of her head, with an intimacy that is characteristic of Kitamura's novels. Heavily philosophical about relationships and intentions, about pretenses and desires.
I liked the way this book was written but kind of felt like it wasn't going anywhere and was a little bored during the last third
This one had odd prose, and despite the missing husband I didn't get pulled into the mystery. Major snooze-fest and I am putting it down.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
Katie Kitamura, Queen of Anticlimactic Unease.
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Tedious, monotonous, anticlimactic. Skip this one.