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wilhelmena 's review for:
The Tatami Galaxy
by Tomihiko Morimi
medium-paced
I think the concept is really interesting but it wasn’t executed very well, i think we didn’t need such similarities between the way the story was written, it meant I was jumping paragraphs when i thought it was a repeated section. I think it could have been more inventive with the repetitions. I think if you like a slow paced book that is more reflective than story driven you’d like this. For me, the end wasn’t even that exciting because I was really toughing out the middle, i didn’t care about the characters.
The main character is also very unlikable, which i’m not against in a book but when the story isn’t engaging as well it creates a sort of resentment for the characters. His attitude to women was pretty intolerable for me personally. I found the semi-love interest to be a tool and a bit of a manic pixie dream girl in that way.
I gave the book 2.5 stars because i really liked the concept and parts of the story did intrigue me but I didn’t empathise with the main character or even find him interesting, I didn’t care what his fate was really and so the book became more of an effort to get though.
The main character is also very unlikable, which i’m not against in a book but when the story isn’t engaging as well it creates a sort of resentment for the characters. His attitude to women was pretty intolerable for me personally. I found the semi-love interest to be a tool and a bit of a manic pixie dream girl in that way.
I gave the book 2.5 stars because i really liked the concept and parts of the story did intrigue me but I didn’t empathise with the main character or even find him interesting, I didn’t care what his fate was really and so the book became more of an effort to get though.