Astrid Hawk
Another disappointment - this is what I get for just picking up a book based on its cover. I think this one suffered from being in translation. There was a lot of telling rather than showing - a lot of sentences constructed from pronoun/name + filter verb (I just recently learned this is what I dislike in writing that makes it feel less professional and more childish to me). The perspective shifted a lot, often mid-paragraph. And the characters just all seemed a bit... off. Unrealistic. Exaggerated in places, and overly simplified in others. I don't know how much of this was Japanese culture and literature that got lost in translation, and how much of this was a man writing women and failing at it.
Another disappointment - this is what I get for just picking up a book based on its cover. I think this one suffered from being in translation. There was a lot of telling rather than showing - a lot of sentences constructed from pronoun/name + filter verb (I just recently learned this is what I dislike in writing that makes it feel less professional and more childish to me). The perspective shifted a lot, often mid-paragraph. And the characters just all seemed a bit... off. Unrealistic. Exaggerated in places, and overly simplified in others. I don't know how much of this was Japanese culture and literature that got lost in translation, and how much of this was a man writing women and failing at it.