good one ( )

This was definitely a page-turner for me, with several separate plots coming together in unexpected ways. However, I found the second half to be a little disappointing. Oftentimes, it felt as though the author was trying to say something deep and meaningful, yet I couldn't find anything particularly insightful about what he was saying. This sense of frustration just kept on escalating as I read. I think that at the end of the novel I was looking for some closure, but instead found a lot of loose ends.
The highlight of the story was the relationship that developed between Nakata and Hoshino, whom I found to be much more likable than the boy, Kafka. ( )

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