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challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had different expectations for this book to be honest. I thought it would have more suspense than it did. It was very discriptive about everything, but especially the food. So much so that I felt lost myltiple times where the story was.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy this book. The themes of misogony, gender roles and womens hapiness in marriage were very interesting and made me think about these themes even more.
I liked how Rika discovered more of herself and how she wanted to be while working with Kaji. It was nice to see her choosing herself and becoming more confident in herself.
The butter aspect came up a lot in this book. Even in more ways than I expected, which I thought was smart and a nice choice.
I liked Reiko more and more when the story progressed. I liked how we also got to have a few chapters through her POV. Love for her that she eventually choose to go to couples therapy and shed the sociatal expectations of how a marriage should be and do what works for them.
During the interactions between Kaji and Rika, I started to guess more and more what Kaji's motives were for hating women with such a passion. I guessed rifht, as it was loneliness at its core and she expressed that very gorely. I also was thinking maybe Kaji had some traits of autism and narcism. As Kaji was not able to have female friends and have regular interactions with other people. A lot of people thought of her as weird and odd. That would make a lot of sense why she had these diffulties. And her narcicism shone through when she felt like she was superior to men because they are babies in her eyes and to women because they have to accept to obey a man according to her.
And was there a secret wlw aspect between Rika and Reiko? Rika mentioned that a lot of girls had a crush on her during middle school, because there were no boys in school and she was the closest thing to it. But Reiko also had a crush on her in the past, but still was mentioning something along the lines like, if only you were a man. So I think that Reiko is at least bi because she still has those feelings towards Rika even if she didn't express them.
In the audiobook version this book is a lot more enjoyable than in the written version. I tried that first, but I got bored so fast. So I switched to the audiobook and that was a lot better.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy this book. The themes of misogony, gender roles and womens hapiness in marriage were very interesting and made me think about these themes even more.
I liked how Rika discovered more of herself and how she wanted to be while working with Kaji. It was nice to see her choosing herself and becoming more confident in herself.
The butter aspect came up a lot in this book. Even in more ways than I expected, which I thought was smart and a nice choice.
I liked Reiko more and more when the story progressed. I liked how we also got to have a few chapters through her POV. Love for her that she eventually choose to go to couples therapy and shed the sociatal expectations of how a marriage should be and do what works for them.
During the interactions between Kaji and Rika, I started to guess more and more what Kaji's motives were for hating women with such a passion. I guessed rifht, as it was loneliness at its core and she expressed that very gorely. I also was thinking maybe Kaji had some traits of autism and narcism. As Kaji was not able to have female friends and have regular interactions with other people. A lot of people thought of her as weird and odd. That would make a lot of sense why she had these diffulties. And her narcicism shone through when she felt like she was superior to men because they are babies in her eyes and to women because they have to accept to obey a man according to her.
And was there a secret wlw aspect between Rika and Reiko? Rika mentioned that a lot of girls had a crush on her during middle school, because there were no boys in school and she was the closest thing to it. But Reiko also had a crush on her in the past, but still was mentioning something along the lines like, if only you were a man. So I think that Reiko is at least bi because she still has those feelings towards Rika even if she didn't express them.
In the audiobook version this book is a lot more enjoyable than in the written version. I tried that first, but I got bored so fast. So I switched to the audiobook and that was a lot better.