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A review by jelka
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
2.0
Japanese hot girl summer 3/?
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If I just tell you the plot it sounds cute and interesting but the writing is so so bad. I cannot believe that this book is so hyped up. The author heard "show don't tell" and proceeded to "tell not show" to the point where it could be a parody taught in third grade English class. As in, every single emotionally relevant thing happens off page. The author's favourite approach to writing an emotional or plot-relevant scene between characters A and B is to have character A tell character C about it in a shittily written dialogue or phone call.
But that is not all. Even worse is that characters switch between emotions/tones even within scenes. Prepare for sudden yelling/coldness(??)/laughter that is completely exaggerated for both character and scene. This is not only cringe and jarring, but makes me also dislike every single character.
I'd love to read this book again by a different author. Alas...
😟😟😟
If I just tell you the plot it sounds cute and interesting but the writing is so so bad. I cannot believe that this book is so hyped up. The author heard "show don't tell" and proceeded to "tell not show" to the point where it could be a parody taught in third grade English class. As in, every single emotionally relevant thing happens off page. The author's favourite approach to writing an emotional or plot-relevant scene between characters A and B is to have character A tell character C about it in a shittily written dialogue or phone call.
But that is not all. Even worse is that characters switch between emotions/tones even within scenes. Prepare for sudden yelling/coldness(??)/laughter that is completely exaggerated for both character and scene. This is not only cringe and jarring, but makes me also dislike every single character.
I'd love to read this book again by a different author. Alas...