1Q84 - Livro 1

liked:
-the writing style.

disliked:
-the sexualization of female characters (including a queer romance that just came off as a total man's fantasy, and grown men having sex with prepubescent girls...)

-no exploration into aomame's queerness. felt disingenuous and so inauthentic

there is definitely a way to write an engrossing fantasy about cults and an interesting alter universe kind of setting WITHOUT having weird and gross descriptions of problematic sex scenes with minors. i doubt this would get published today and if so, it would have to be intensely edited to omit several problematic scenes that don't add whatsoever to what makes the book any good...after soooo many pages i found this book to be quite a disappointment.