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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book is absolutely not what I expected it to be, the blurb from my local library did not remotely indicate what this was about. I'm giving it a 3.75 because I have no clue what to rate it.
It's well-written and very heavy but I just feel so disorientated after finishing it, wow. The book has some genuine insight at times and is able to strip away some of the normalizing lens that we apply on social expectations in order to criticize these norms, but the protagonist and plot are so odd that it's hard to say whether it's effective messaging.
I don't have any personal triggers but I wish I had checked them beforehand for this book just so I had a better idea of what I was getting in to
It's well-written and very heavy but I just feel so disorientated after finishing it, wow. The book has some genuine insight at times and is able to strip away some of the normalizing lens that we apply on social expectations in order to criticize these norms, but the protagonist and plot are so odd that it's hard to say whether it's effective messaging.
I don't have any personal triggers but I wish I had checked them beforehand for this book just so I had a better idea of what I was getting in to
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Vomit and Murder