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A review by ilariyalev
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
dark
2.75
I would like to preface by saying inside I give it low rating not due to the poor quality or lack of development but because it's no type of the book I would like to read. Following the story of the character make me empathetically feel powerless which is not something I like to experience when reading in my free time mostly for entertainment.
It's well written story and I understand what it's trying to do and it's doing it well. However, it is not enjoyable, and I don't think it's trying to be. It concerns me that it's description on the back include Words "wildly entertaining" , because it covers really dark topics which are described in very gruesome way, and saying that it's entertaining is complete lack of understanding either of the book or of the word "ente tainment " itself. I can see how some parts can be funny in dark humor way, but describing the whole story in three words one which is wildly entertaining.... Themes of the book are alienation, societal norms, hetero normativity, willing blindness of society etc. But also it's not magical realism whoever Marked it as such on storygraph either haven't read the book or completely misunderstood it
It's well written story and I understand what it's trying to do and it's doing it well. However, it is not enjoyable, and I don't think it's trying to be. It concerns me that it's description on the back include Words "wildly entertaining" , because it covers really dark topics which are described in very gruesome way, and saying that it's entertaining is complete lack of understanding either of the book or of the word "ente tainment " itself. I can see how some parts can be funny in dark humor way, but describing the whole story in three words one which is wildly entertaining.... Themes of the book are alienation, societal norms, hetero normativity, willing blindness of society etc. But also it's not magical realism whoever Marked it as such on storygraph either haven't read the book or completely misunderstood it