So... I have just read “Behind her eyes”... And I don't know how to process this at almost 1 a.m. I am almost sure I will write a review on this book soon, which is not what I usually do (and I want to fix it for sure)! But this book has broken me and left me speechless. Definitely one of my favorite books of the year!
This book has pissed me off. I just can't. It is so freaking unrealistic and stupid.
The main things that bother me in this book are:
1. FREAKING SEX ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE. I don't mind sex in books at all, don't get me wrong. But there are TOO MANY sex scenes. And the main problem with this is that love is sex and sex is love in this book. This fact makes me so angry that I just can't...
2. Every single character in the book was flat. The main character was super boring. All he did was whining about Naoko and how he was such a bad person for using girls and also saying “yeah, I guess”, “hmmm”, “I don't know”, “sure”, “I understand”. I screamed every single time he said something. Naoko was just a stupid girl who could not say no to a man. “Yeah, I don't love you, but if you want some blowjob, I'll do it ;)”. Midori... Oh god, where should I start... She was so selfish and capricious. She knew from the start that Watanabe had a girlfriend (kinda), but she was so possessive towards him. She thought only about sex. I just could not stand her. I can't say much about Reiko. Can I just remind you of the last scene in the book? Should I add anything? I think no.
3. There is no plot. At all. You can ask: “How is this possible?” I can't answer this question. The author somehow managed to write a book without a plot and it frustrated me so much.
Well... Surprisingly, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought. BUT it doesnt mean that I enjoyed it a lot. I was entertained, you may say. I started to read this book with such low expectations, so it worked for me. I wasnt very dissapointed, neither I was surprised by the plot or the characters. It was just a fun read, nothing more than that.
P. S. Yeah, I admit, this book has a lot of plot holes and stupid things in it, but... Oh god, how refreshing it was to read about a romance (sometimes VERY stupid) and not about A FREAKING LOVE TRIANGLE AGAIN.