kitnotmarlowe 's review for:

The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Fūtarō Yamada

DID NOT FINISH: 19%

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I'm like those booktok girlies who subsist entirely on an anemic diet of wattpad-ass smut except in my case I'm absolutely obsessed with honkaku. So this isn't my first rodeo. It isn't even my fifth rodeo. But oh my god when I tell you I didn't know anything that was happening in this book. I didn't know who the main characters were, I didn't know what was going on, I didn't have any idea of when the titular guillotine murders would be committed, nor who would be committing them.

Absolutely inscrutable. There are better honkaku out there. Do not read this