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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
5.0
I don’t know how to adequately rate this book. I can’t decide if I hate it, am impressed by it, or am just in shock.
The best way I can describe this without spoilers is that it starts with a trauma based coming of age vibe with questions of conformity. It then quickly spirals into an “Appalachian Mountains reimagined by a Japanese horror novelist” story.
I see this becoming a well known cult classic for any avid horror reader.
Wow.
The best way I can describe this without spoilers is that it starts with a trauma based coming of age vibe with questions of conformity. It then quickly spirals into an “Appalachian Mountains reimagined by a Japanese horror novelist” story.
I see this becoming a well known cult classic for any avid horror reader.
Wow.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2.0
I really wanted to like this book but I was genuinely disappointed.
The thing that drew me to this book initially was that it was narrated by death himself. I thought it to be genius, and immediately harrowing and heartbreaking. I rarely am into war or history based novels. But as the story went on, I sort of just kept waiting for something to happen.
I’ll admit I fell in love with the characters. So much so that I was dreading the downfall of them. However that dread waned as the story went on.. and on… and on… without anything happening until the last chapter. It edged me the entire time to the point I was just happy to finish it and the ending didn’t hit as hard as it should’ve at all. Not to mention the ending was spoiled by the narrator prematurely. It was.. a choice on the authors behalf for sure. I can’t say it’s one I necessarily enjoyed though.
I think this novel is a fantastic learning experience. But unfortunately that was not what I was looking for diving into it.
It has great aspects, but overall I found it disappointing.
The thing that drew me to this book initially was that it was narrated by death himself. I thought it to be genius, and immediately harrowing and heartbreaking. I rarely am into war or history based novels. But as the story went on, I sort of just kept waiting for something to happen.
I’ll admit I fell in love with the characters. So much so that I was dreading the downfall of them. However that dread waned as the story went on.. and on… and on… without anything happening until the last chapter. It edged me the entire time to the point I was just happy to finish it and the ending didn’t hit as hard as it should’ve at all. Not to mention the ending was spoiled by the narrator prematurely. It was.. a choice on the authors behalf for sure. I can’t say it’s one I necessarily enjoyed though.
I think this novel is a fantastic learning experience. But unfortunately that was not what I was looking for diving into it.
It has great aspects, but overall I found it disappointing.
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
2.0
I went into this excited about a morbidly funny haunting.
But ended up with a ridiculously written woman experiencing mental slippage due to her husband being haunted & depressed. She’s so obsessed with him she can’t handle the idea that he may not give her everything she wants and begins to lose it. Everything sort of goes wrong with her and this book just ends up feeling like a one woman show.
It missed the mark for me. The haunting felt left on the back burner. Nothing about it was scary. I was entertained at first because I did enjoy some of the MC’s theoretical homicidal thoughts and frustrations. But most of the time it was just her having no personality aside from what other people think, being fully obsessed with her husband, and wanting a baby thinking it’ll solve her life problems.
Just overall, not a great book. Not even well written in a lot of areas. Some things left unresolved, and a weirdly quick ending that just didn’t feel very thought out.
But ended up with a ridiculously written woman experiencing mental slippage due to her husband being haunted & depressed. She’s so obsessed with him she can’t handle the idea that he may not give her everything she wants and begins to lose it. Everything sort of goes wrong with her and this book just ends up feeling like a one woman show.
It missed the mark for me. The haunting felt left on the back burner. Nothing about it was scary. I was entertained at first because I did enjoy some of the MC’s theoretical homicidal thoughts and frustrations. But most of the time it was just her having no personality aside from what other people think, being fully obsessed with her husband, and wanting a baby thinking it’ll solve her life problems.
Just overall, not a great book. Not even well written in a lot of areas. Some things left unresolved, and a weirdly quick ending that just didn’t feel very thought out.