Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

4 reviews

deyonce54's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual assault

While I enjoyed the commentary on grief and healing, I did not enjoy the random age-gap relationship and how that was romanticized. It felt like a misrepresented trauma response.

mixuchi's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Incest

nyankonii's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

tw: romanticized predatory age gap

this was basically daddy issues: the novel.

mc goes through stages of grief after the suicide of her father.
the writing felt stilted but that most likely is the fault of the translation.

she takes a liking to a regular at the bistro she works at bc he reminds her of her father. she then disturbingly develops a crush on her father’s friend. they both acknowledge it’s wrong since he knew her since she was a child, but they hook up anyways…yeah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Incest

sarah984's review

hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I really liked that sort of listless feeling of being in your twenties that this book evokes: you're an adult but still really learning what that means, you're having this new sort of adult to adult relationship to your parents, and I feel like that feeling was captured really well. I also loved the sense of place, and the nostalgia and love for a place that was changing.

Unfortunately I felt like the relationship stuff was overall really boring, especially right at the end. All that seemed like it came out of nowhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Fatphobia, Incest, Infertility, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, and Alcohol