A review by ladybugwrites
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

slow-paced

3.5

This book is very well written in a kind of diary format that works very well for the story it's telling. It's dark, it's intense, it's sad, it's relatable. This is a story about identity, coming to terms with your own and freeing yourself from the confines of societal labels. And yet, it's a little too much for my taste. Not everything is that interesting to read, a lot of it is unnecessarily repetitive.

However, considering the way this is written, considering how it's written, it seems slightly biographical of the author. There's also the crocodile metaphor that I found really interesting and wishes there was more of. Absolutely not a bad read in any way and I will want to check out more because the writing style was really nice, but not as good as I hoped it to be.