confuusedcreaturex4 's review for:

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

2.25

slow-paced

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Let me start by saying I did not hate this book, though I'm about to write a whole rant about the many many things I dislike or more like things that confused me. at first,the book started in a very nice way , the voice of the narrator was very interesting and intriguing his pretentiousness fun to read, the setting was also very interesting (though I admit I wish I had done more research about that part of history cause I was feeling very clueless at the beginning about all the historical aspects of the story but the book became such a mess that the historical part couldn't save it,Mr Banks is supposed to be an amazing wonderful detective (though we never get how or why or any proof) but despite that the more you read the more you realize that this man lacks some serious critical thinking skills (honestly I think I should have not trusted this book since I saw from the blurb that he's supposed to(with one case) save the whole civilization) the worse is that he and other characters in the book are as unrealistic and with the same distorted view on reality to believe the same thing. ugh this book made my head hurt really ,  i do not understand this man, one time he is the epitome of morality and then he's acting like hes a robot who has no such things as compassion and empathy  !!! like man show us some sympathy, some feeling , what's going on in that head of yours. sometimes he's very smart , sometimes he's very delusional it makes him look so stupid it doesn't make any sense .and just as I was getting to find an interesting and realistic character they had to make him a raging misogynist sadist (that is actually  a very nice description in comparison to how shitty "uncle" Philip is ), I don't understand why he didn't shoot him, I wish the author had at least let us know what was going in banks head at the time, like after 300 pages of him trying to find his parents, he finds he horrible truth about his uncle and nothing? no thoughts no feelings? the author wrote more about the interior design of the room they're in smh. the book had a lot of potential, and In some ways, I could get a glimpse of what the author tried to make out of this story but I wish hed focused on the heart of the story: orphanage and the unlived lives and more focus on many important characters that just disappeared. 
still somehow i did enjoy the confusing rollercoaster that this book was , and realising the unreliability of the narrator and his damaged perception of reality was fun to read , and was , that man needed a hug and  a therapist so bad 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, War