A review by antony_monir
The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima

5.0

I am so sad that I’m done with the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. There is so much to be said about it and about this last entry. I will keep it short. The ending for this book is so devastating and it’s very hard to wrap my head around it, not because it’s confusing but because the thematic implications of it change how I see every other book in the series. I will say though that this book would have benefited from being longer as the pacing seems rushed at some points and the relationship between Tōru and Honda is not developed much. In the end this is an amazing conclusion to one of the greatest series of novels of the 20th century. Final rating: 4/5 (standalone) or 5/5 (as a conclusion to the series).