A review by jentang
Piercing by Ryū Murakami

3.75

Definitely upwards trajectory in the Murakami works I've been reading - this has been his least painful and aggravating work to get through yet. A really unfortunately accurate look into the manifestations of childhood trauma and the effects of hardcore OCD. No real qualms with the writing, everything was quite intriguing and easy to follow and the characters were well fleshed out, but I do wish that Murakami himself would once in a while just take the plunge and stab the ice pick in when he writes, too. Psychological horrors don't always have to be open-ended and truly crime averse.