Sayaka Murata

Yikes.

What in the heck did I just read?

The jacket cover is technically correct, but hats off to the marketing folks that wrote the sales pitch, picked the cover quotes, piqued my interest, and got me to read this strange book. No, strange is not a strong enough word though. Bizarre? Odd? Whack?

Whatever ... it just wasn't good; I didn't like it. So many strange choices by the characters, misunderstandings, and topics that went way out into left field. I understand there are a LOT of cultural differences between the US and Japan, and that this was translated from Japanese so I added a star to the rating to account for those differences. But honestly this felt like a book about three people who need serious therapy.

I don't know what else to say. Just ... yikes.… (més)