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headliner's review against another edition
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Menurutku cover buku ini unik karena menampilkan sosok perempuan yang lagi ngintip dengan balutan cardigan kuning. Aku juga baru sadar setelah selesai baca dan lagi buat draft review, lalu penasaran: kenapa bukan perempuan rok ungu yang dijadikan cover?
Well, meskipun begitu aku ngerasa pilihan covernya adalah hal yang tepat dan sama uniknya. Kenyataannya perempuan cardigan kuning ini jadi tokoh yang nyeritain segala hal tentang perempuan rok ungu. By the way, mereka punya nama asli kok. No worries!
Perempuan rok ungu digambarkan sebagai sosok yang aneh dan kerap jadi perbincangan di kota tempat tinggalnya. Bahkan sampai mendapat perlakuan khusus. Sementara, perempuan cardigan kuning ini digambarkan sebagai tokoh yang penasaran banget dengan kehidupan rok ungu. Berulang kali berusaha kenal lebih dekat sama dia, tapi jatuhnya kayak stalker yang too obsessed dan bikin risih. Long short story, mereka akhirnya bekerja di tempat yang sama, dan beragam konflik dihadirkan meramaikan cerita buku ini.
Selepas baca Perempuan Rok Ungu aku jadi dapetin insight tentang gimana kehidupan pekerjaan di Jepang. To make it specified, pekerjaan dalam lingkup perhotelan. Setiap pekerjaan dan kantor tentu ada struggle tersendiri dan di hotel tempat mereka bekerja juga punya struggle yang juga perlu dihadapi.
Kalau ditanya gimana perasaanku setelah berhasil namatin ini aku akan jawab dengan jujur: aneh, bingung, dan gak jelas. Aku ngerasa begitu karena udah dibikin risih sendiri dengan tindakan stalking yang dilakuin cardigan kuning. Still, buku ini dapat menjadi selingan dan dibaca sekali duduk!
Well, meskipun begitu aku ngerasa pilihan covernya adalah hal yang tepat dan sama uniknya. Kenyataannya perempuan cardigan kuning ini jadi tokoh yang nyeritain segala hal tentang perempuan rok ungu. By the way, mereka punya nama asli kok. No worries!
Perempuan rok ungu digambarkan sebagai sosok yang aneh dan kerap jadi perbincangan di kota tempat tinggalnya. Bahkan sampai mendapat perlakuan khusus. Sementara, perempuan cardigan kuning ini digambarkan sebagai tokoh yang penasaran banget dengan kehidupan rok ungu. Berulang kali berusaha kenal lebih dekat sama dia, tapi jatuhnya kayak stalker yang too obsessed dan bikin risih. Long short story, mereka akhirnya bekerja di tempat yang sama, dan beragam konflik dihadirkan meramaikan cerita buku ini.
Selepas baca Perempuan Rok Ungu aku jadi dapetin insight tentang gimana kehidupan pekerjaan di Jepang. To make it specified, pekerjaan dalam lingkup perhotelan. Setiap pekerjaan dan kantor tentu ada struggle tersendiri dan di hotel tempat mereka bekerja juga punya struggle yang juga perlu dihadapi.
Kalau ditanya gimana perasaanku setelah berhasil namatin ini aku akan jawab dengan jujur: aneh, bingung, dan gak jelas. Aku ngerasa begitu karena udah dibikin risih sendiri dengan tindakan stalking yang dilakuin cardigan kuning. Still, buku ini dapat menjadi selingan dan dibaca sekali duduk!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Sexual harassment
lobsterlemons's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Bullying
travisppe's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Not much happens but I couldn’t put it down.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Minor: Bullying, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Violence
chrisljm's review against another edition
tense
fast-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
2.5
This is what I imagine stans to be like if instead of being fans of celebrities they were just really into regular people.
A unique book and narration but not very exciting. Overall mundane with the most stirring element of the story being how delulu the narrator is.
A unique book and narration but not very exciting. Overall mundane with the most stirring element of the story being how delulu the narrator is.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking, Bullying, and Infidelity
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Pregnancy
espookita's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-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
4.0
The Woman in the Purple Skirt is an homage to the pathology of stalking, reminiscent to me of the types Rear Window, Miser, and You. All the details of the story—specifics of geography, beyond urban Japan, the narrator’s name, almost any proper nouns, are sparingly absent. We know nothing about the narrator (the woman in the yellow cardigan) but all the intimate details of her victim’s life—the eponymous Woman in the Purple Skirt—to an almost excessive degree. The tunnel vision consuming the woman in the yellow cardigan is ever present throughout the writing of the book, suffocating, never leaving the focus of her target. If you’re interested in voyeurism and feeling like the fly on the wall in someone else’s life, this is the book for you. It is manipulative and dark and also deeply sad. In what is perverse, and also as happens often when done from the perspective of the stalker, I did find myself sympathising with her over the victim. Well-written in that you feel just as suffocated as its characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse
kavarnistka's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Infidelity and Bullying
Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail
ivulikkivulik's review against another edition
mysterious
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Infidelity, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Bullying
Minor: Alcohol
veerau's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
medium-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? No
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Infidelity and Bullying
readingwithkt's review against another edition
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Stalking, Murder, and Violence
keisyreads's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
It’s interesting that what we are reading is not a narrator who is simply like a “fly” on the wall but an actual person who is telling the reader what is happening… because she’s stalking the woman in the purple skirt. The narrative style is one of my favorite things about this book. The narrator does these things for the Woman in the Purple Skirt to feel important and be seen. So much so, she is determined to become the Woman in the Purple Skirt’s friends. She records every single one of her moves. A part of ending was open ended and left me with so many questions; the other part of the ending was satisfying especially after following the narrator throughout the whole book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: Violence, Sexual harassment, and Bullying
Minor: Infidelity