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indoorplant25 's review for:
Himawari House
by Harmony Becker
It was ok but honestly confusing:
1) The back and forth between all the characters was too much for me. It was nice to see everyone’s life’s and link to their countries and family history but it felt too messy.
2) the speech bubbles with the constant double languages were exhausting. As a bilingual person I get the reason behind it but as a reader I hated it. It’s tiring for the eyes and doesn’t make for a good reading experience. Same with the accents / phonetic writing of the non English speaking characters. I get the author’s reasons for doing it and I do love hearing people’s accents in an audio media (and I do think we should celebrate it in general) but in a book it’s too much. It doesn’t help the story flow and here the story was very slow unfortunately. It just makes it drag even more.
And honestly I didn’t like the comment about white people in Japan. It was very strange, especially from this character. I get that it’s supposed to help with the MC’s feeling torn between feeling Japanese/American but I didn’t like it
I did like the art style and a lot of references about Japanese culture or this feeling of being torn between 2 cultures/ languages…I did appreciate seeing a MC from Singapore since it’s rare and I love SGP dearly
1) The back and forth between all the characters was too much for me. It was nice to see everyone’s life’s and link to their countries and family history but it felt too messy.
2) the speech bubbles with the constant double languages were exhausting. As a bilingual person I get the reason behind it but as a reader I hated it. It’s tiring for the eyes and doesn’t make for a good reading experience. Same with the accents / phonetic writing of the non English speaking characters. I get the author’s reasons for doing it and I do love hearing people’s accents in an audio media (and I do think we should celebrate it in general) but in a book it’s too much. It doesn’t help the story flow and here the story was very slow unfortunately. It just makes it drag even more.
And honestly I didn’t like the comment about white people in Japan. It was very strange, especially from this character. I get that it’s supposed to help with the MC’s feeling torn between feeling Japanese/American but I didn’t like it
I did like the art style and a lot of references about Japanese culture or this feeling of being torn between 2 cultures/ languages…I did appreciate seeing a MC from Singapore since it’s rare and I love SGP dearly