A review by abbie_
The Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

3.25

thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC of The Tokyo Suite. I liked but didn’t love this one. I feel like it went well with one of my other March reads - The Abandoners, which was about mothers who leave their children. Fernanda is a big shot TV exec who regularly leaves her daughter in the care of her husband for her career, a refreshing take. While working and dealing with a strained marriage, she embarks on an affair which consumes her to the point that she doesn’t even notice her daughter’s disappearance.

The other POV is from Maju, the nanny who has kidnapped Cora, Fernanda’s daughter. Her chapters were my favourite, as they were imbued with a strange sense of calm on the surface but sheer panic underneath. The situations she put herself and Cora into had me on edge.

I did notice quite a few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes which hopefully get caught before the final version.

One of those ones where I enjoyed it while reading but when I finished I wasn’t left with a huge impact.