Reviews - The Premonition | The StoryGraph

1.41k reviews for:

The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto

3.33 AVERAGE

samantasas's review against another edition

3.0

emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

soon725's review against another edition

4.25

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

tamara_joy's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Content Warnings

kpwaugh89's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

booksborrowed's review

3.25

mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This short story Yoshimoto has conjured was thought provoking. The main character finds herself in a happy family, but often runs away for reflection and has missing memories she is trying to restore. Overall I interpreted a sense of coming of age and trauma healing from the premise.

The parts of the story I was not impressed by were the romanti relationships. I felt they may have been added for shock value rather than to add any real growth of the characters. These taboo relationships do however make a person reflect on what trauma may do to our decision making.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend this short story, but it did keep me engrossed to try to see the outcome.

Content Warnings

forgottenangstycharacter's review against another edition

1.5

Quite possibly the book with the worst premise I’ve ever read. The synopsis made it sound really interesting and we ended up with a two young adults who grew up as siblings falling in love and an encouraged teacher/student relationship. The whole thing just felt facile and ridiculous. Thank goodness it was short.

Half a star for the translator. I still like Asa Yoneda as a translator it’s the source materials that let it down