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Lady Joker: Volume 2 by Kaoru Takamura

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kapaspermen_'s review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Firstly found the 1st volume of this book from a challenge, got hooked and decided to continue the 2nd volume. It was a fitful finale, each page makes you wonder if you've concluded the final judgement for each character and their relationship with the world around them, or if the case would ever be solved. Solid ending, I love the conclusion for each of them. Realistic, I can see most of these happening in the modern world. Some details and things happening here are unnecessary and dragging. The slow-pacing was challenging, and the english translation was a bit difficult to follow, but I learned a lot and really enjoyed the experience. I recommend this to every one who loves literary fiction and mystery.

8797999's review against another edition

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5.0

A great read and conclusion to Lady Joker. It took a while to get back into it since it was a year or so since I read Volume 1 so my memory was a tad hazy. Volume 2 is as enjoyable as Volume 1 was and I would like to read both again and read them as one book.

Superb and well worth the time and effort reading both volumes. I have read Volume 2 in two days, so engrossing I found it. Haven't been able to put it down. Given how my teams (Liverpool & Wales) have played today I'm glad I chose Lady Joker instead of watching their matches ha.

wrenslibrary's review

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emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

After almost 1200 pages I am enthralled by what I have read (and also glad it is over as I should be out a reading slump that it put me in). Quite possibly the most detail rich book I have read in my life, it puts you in the mind of 6 or 7 characters and shows you exactly what they are thinking. The characters exprience the story of a criminal group and it's actions, talking about what shaded corners of the population, the deep-rooted, long-term affects of corporate greed and the things we do for what we desire. I thoroughly enjoyed this despite it's speed and would love a reread in the future <3

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hawkes's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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craigkocur's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

4.0

gumbeeman's review against another edition

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5.0

The end of this one rokked my world

kathrinpassig's review against another edition

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3.0

Es ist bestimmt ein 4-Sterne-Buch, mein Lesevergnügen war aber über weite Strecken nur ein 2-Sterne-Lesevergnügen, deshalb drei als Kompromiss. Ich fand es vor allem in der ersten Hälfte schwer verständlich und langweilig und habe nur weitergelesen, weil ich jetzt schon so viel Zeit investiert hatte (es sind zusammen mit dem ersten Band 1200 Seiten) und weil immer wieder Kapitel kommen, die dann wirklich interessant waren. Ich bereue nichts, möchte es aber nicht noch mal lesen.

charlottethebookharlot's review against another edition

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5.0

A fantastic ending to the two part novel. All I can say is that if you loved Lady Joker Volume one you won't be disappointed with volume two.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for a copy of the novel in exchange for an honest review.

bookedandwatched's review against another edition

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3.0

I wanted to love this book and I think if I had read Volume 1 before it I would have. However, I found it slower than what I typically love.

This is less of a crime story and more of a novel about corporate japan, espionage and greed. And whilst they are interesting and riveting aspects I found the multiple changes of POV confusing in audiobook format. It was hard to keep track of each character and instead led more to me becoming disengaged.

This is nothing against the book which is a solid book and more that the book just wasn't for me.

Glad I read it though and only just realised it was inspired by a real life kidnapping.

ruthjenkins's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced

4.0

Finally. I finally finished it. With both volumes, this story totals approximately 1200 pages. It's extremely detailed but somehow still very gripping. Volume 1 walked so that Volume 2 could run.

There is one chapter where a character spends about 14 pages trying to work out what was minute detail was different about a bus stop from when he saw it the previous day. It was absolutely compelling.

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