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A review by paru_site
Piercing by Ryū Murakami
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
<spoilers> I ejoyed it. Really interesting how two people, who have both suffered immensely in their childhood move forward with their life. Kawashima tries to separate himself from his past entirely, dissociating essentially. He's got a cool well paying job, a beautiful wife, a daughter, a stable life and he doesn't like talking about his past. Chiaki on the other hand is completely aware of how her trauma affects her and its really heart breaking that she ends up in the line of work she's in considering her past. She's fully present when the trauma happens, she simply takes away the perpetrator's identity - just like she does with the men in her life.
Kawashima wants to turn his pain outward into the world (a woman, duh) and Chiaki internalises her pain. Typical. Men need the world to feel what they're feeling and women try to be as quiet and inconvenient as possible.
Chiaki is my favorite of the two, reading her introduction halfway through was def a jolt and a delight (idk why) she's so broken and real and honest and fucked up thoroughly and she completely owns it. I was rooting for her the entire time and she's so strange about her reactions to things. Why is she so calm the day after the incident? I love her.....
The DESCRIPTIONS WAS SO KNEE BUCKLINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE!!!! the scene in the bathroom had me squirminggggg. It just kept getting more and more out of hand (for kawashima) and i was genuinely so engrossed in it.
Reading the back and forth inner monologues of the two was SO TENSE. They were having 2 separate conversations but only one could end terribly.
There was something so touching about the kindred spirit aspect between the two and it was so well written and handled by the author. Honestly, love it.
Kawashima wants to turn his pain outward into the world (a woman, duh) and Chiaki internalises her pain. Typical. Men need the world to feel what they're feeling and women try to be as quiet and inconvenient as possible.
Chiaki is my favorite of the two, reading her introduction halfway through was def a jolt and a delight (idk why) she's so broken and real and honest and fucked up thoroughly and she completely owns it. I was rooting for her the entire time and she's so strange about her reactions to things. Why is she so calm the day after the incident? I love her.....
The DESCRIPTIONS WAS SO KNEE BUCKLINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE!!!! the scene in the bathroom had me squirminggggg. It just kept getting more and more out of hand (for kawashima) and i was genuinely so engrossed in it.
Reading the back and forth inner monologues of the two was SO TENSE. They were having 2 separate conversations but only one could end terribly.
There was something so touching about the kindred spirit aspect between the two and it was so well written and handled by the author. Honestly, love it.