124 reviews for:

Dragon Palace

Hiromi Kawakami

3.28 AVERAGE

aerkan's review

3.25

dark reflective fast-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

today_catsandbooks's review

4.0

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Magic realism at its finest. Kawakami is an amazing author who likes to explore the different and strange. Many of these tales explore transformation.

rifkautami's review

5.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maryftay's review

3.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

booksadaisyes's review

3.0

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‘Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.’

This is a collection of 8 very strange short stories - there are shape shifters and mythical creatures and some of the stories are quite sexually charged, some funny, quirky and just strange.

I really loved Kawakami’s previous books, Strange Weather in Tokyo and People From My Neighbourhood, and I’m a fan of magic realism. But it took me a long time to read her latest work. I had to keep rereading to follow the story. It’s an odd collection.

If you enjoy short stories and surrealism this collection is for you!!!

Thanks to @netgalley and @stonebridgepress for the ebook in return for an honest review.

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darumachan's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

alexarose19's review

2.75

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

inarai's review

3.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

plantbetti's review against another edition

4.25

mysterious reflective fast-paced

shivanireads's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No