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A review by skylarkblue1
Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
5.0
CW: Loss of a loved one, mixed-race discrimination
Thank you to Netgalley for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I think this is certainly one of those books where if the first couple sentences of the description interest you, just get the book and don't read the rest of the description.
Japan is known for earthquakes, but in this book they go a step further. One particular earthquake was so strong it managed to shatter time. Japan gets split up into different "time zones", some are slow, some are fast and they're all different speeds. No one in the regular speed time zones quite knows what happened to those who where within what came to be the different speed zones.
It's a slow-burner book, but written in such a way where it doesn't feel slow. There is however a lot of time theory, philosophical talks and all that jazz all throughout the book, but it's all relatively easy to understand and, at least to me, was quite interesting. I quite liked all the characters as well, they all had good motivations.
I think the only improvement I'd make is give the conflicts during the final part more time. A lot happens all at once and with all the time shifting it's hard to get a good grasp on the feeling for the ending. I would also just love a lot more time with all the revelations and such personally, but I also just absolutely love the world and the character dynamics (especially with Sora and a certain someone at the end :3) and would love to see more from it all and understand it all better.
Thank you to Netgalley for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I think this is certainly one of those books where if the first couple sentences of the description interest you, just get the book and don't read the rest of the description.
Japan is known for earthquakes, but in this book they go a step further. One particular earthquake was so strong it managed to shatter time. Japan gets split up into different "time zones", some are slow, some are fast and they're all different speeds. No one in the regular speed time zones quite knows what happened to those who where within what came to be the different speed zones.
It's a slow-burner book, but written in such a way where it doesn't feel slow. There is however a lot of time theory, philosophical talks and all that jazz all throughout the book, but it's all relatively easy to understand and, at least to me, was quite interesting. I quite liked all the characters as well, they all had good motivations.
I think the only improvement I'd make is give the conflicts during the final part more time. A lot happens all at once and with all the time shifting it's hard to get a good grasp on the feeling for the ending. I would also just love a lot more time with all the revelations and such personally, but I also just absolutely love the world and the character dynamics (especially with Sora and a certain someone at the end :3) and would love to see more from it all and understand it all better.