A review by overlysalted
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

I didn’t enjoy reading this but I don’t regret reading it nor do I think it was a waste of time. It has beautiful writing and the character interactions were nice enough—it was just all a bit bleak and hard to connect to as a kind of slice of life under a totalitarian government story. Or maybe it was a little too easy to relate to and that made it all the more unsettling. Either way, decent book with pretty atmosphere work and appropriately dreary commentary, but I wouldn’t read it again.