A review by kokechii
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

2.0

Eh, 2 stars. I contemplated giving more but, no. I cannot seem to stop being frustrated by this book - the questions it opened and never closed. The varying and frustrating situations in the way the characters almost never outright say what they mean, and I felt as if I was constantly wading through the swamp of misunderstandings and allusions and it was tiring. Maybe that was on purpose, because we learn everything through Klara who is not privy to certain parts of the conversations and situations but to have an AI who is praised throughout the book for being so observational and then for us to read through her point of view and still find things missing...

I also found the conclusion lacking - as if suddenly he just decided "this is the ending" and that's it. Which again, is frustrating because for me one key point (maybe more) was raised right before the ending and there was just so much more I wanted to know.