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A review by bibliofienna
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
4.0
I love how the idea that the writer wants to present: "Hope exists not only in happy stories where everyone feels safe and despair is found only in tragedies."
Even when in their lowest point, the main characters still maintains to have the highest power to be a good person even though they have to fight their own demons and barely made it out alive.
When the writer portray a moment with full intensity, in a state of despair, we can understand deeply what the underlying meaning of what is going on, why certain characters do what they do, why the writer feel the need to present us the brutality vividly.
This book delivers a message that we hold the power in staying true to ourselves, especially when it's hard to do so.
I also want to warn you that this book has intense, heavy and detailed bullying scenes, including violence, attempted rape. Other than that there are death, self-harm, suicidal thoughts. So please be careful and read it consciously.
I'm happy that the male main character got what he wants and I understand that we can only see this story from his point of view, but what about Kojima? We can only hope that she get what she wants, a normal life. I just want to make sure she's gonna be okay or at least she got some closure (a normal one
Even when in their lowest point, the main characters still maintains to have the highest power to be a good person even though they have to fight their own demons and barely made it out alive.
When the writer portray a moment with full intensity, in a state of despair, we can understand deeply what the underlying meaning of what is going on, why certain characters do what they do, why the writer feel the need to present us the brutality vividly.
This book delivers a message that we hold the power in staying true to ourselves, especially when it's hard to do so.
I also want to warn you that this book has intense, heavy and detailed bullying scenes, including violence, attempted rape. Other than that there are death, self-harm, suicidal thoughts. So please be careful and read it consciously.
I'm happy that the male main character got what he wants and I understand that we can only see this story from his point of view, but what about Kojima? We can only hope that she get what she wants, a normal life. I just want to make sure she's gonna be okay or at least she got some closure (a normal one