A review by onceuponatime
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Man..... so interesting. I'll have to read her other books too. It's so hard to give my thoughts because I'm still processing it. A story told through the notebooks of a fatalistic, coming of age lesbian in Taiwan in the 80s. Lazi is so flawed and such a disaster and I love her because of it, because she grows but is still so human and has flaws. All of the characters are so flawedly human that you have to like them. The book is written in a way I found so intriguing and interesting. Yeah... definitely recommend.