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summerthelibrarian 's review for:
The Girl from the Well
by Rin Chupeco
Honestly I found myself laughing at and being overly critical of the author's descriptions of certain aspects of Japanese culture and usage of certain words... Like as someone who lives in Japan, speaks Japanese: a) no one who speaks Japanese would refer to their spouse as "anata" in English. It's a pronoun NOT a pet name and it sounds weeby as hell to imagine a native japanese speaker randomly inserting it into English sentences B) why does everyone in Japan so conveniently speak English?? This has overwhelmingly NOT been my experience and I find it hard to believe that you'd find an inaka shrine maiden who speaks like a fuckin English Lit. professor. I don't buy it. And C) no one who is new to the Japanese language is going to be able to have a full ass conversation even in "broken japanese" after a month. This is literally one of the 3 hardest languages to learn for English speakers to the fact that these white characters come over to japan and are like immediately able to speak and understand japanese had me rolling my eyes SOO hard.
Soo.. there's that. Plus, rhe writing style switched between 1st and 3rd person omniscient like, within paragraphs. The "main character" is the ghost, which is cool but not really, because she only does like 3 things the whole book and the rest of the time just. Watches. Observes. Follows. Waits. Etc. This results in the main characters just being referred to as "the boy" and "the teachers assistant" for at least half of the book and its kind of disorienting.
Overall I didn't hate this book, just found it kind of cringe, but like, in a funny way? It definitely was not even a little bit scary lmao 3 stars I guess
Soo.. there's that. Plus, rhe writing style switched between 1st and 3rd person omniscient like, within paragraphs. The "main character" is the ghost, which is cool but not really, because she only does like 3 things the whole book and the rest of the time just. Watches. Observes. Follows. Waits. Etc. This results in the main characters just being referred to as "the boy" and "the teachers assistant" for at least half of the book and its kind of disorienting.
Overall I didn't hate this book, just found it kind of cringe, but like, in a funny way? It definitely was not even a little bit scary lmao 3 stars I guess