A review by __katdoesbooks
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I could see that it was trying to cover big important themes like loneliness, fatphobia, misogyny, and the societal pressures on women, but I just don’t think the execution was there. The book was very long and slow with nothing really happening, and felt like it should be ending about 3 times before it actually did. To the point that there was so much detail and context without anything happening. I also feels like there was internalised homophobia? There are so many point in the book where the female characters are attracted to each other, either eluded to or explicated stated, yet nothing comes of this? How can a book be simultaneously so gay and yet not gay?

If it had been shorter, more condensed, more murdery, and gayer I would have enjoyed it a lot more.