A review by nmorales
The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
1.0
This book was the most uninteresting book I've ever read, despite the fact that it included issues such as Child Pornography, Abortion, Racial Discrimination, Forbidden Love, Homosexuality, AIDS, Incest, Miscarriage, Japanese Internment, and a few other things thrown into the mix.
There isn't really a plot line, aside from I suppose Irina and Seth trying to figure out who Ichimei is and finally figuring it out, or perhaps maybe it's Alma and Ichimei's love story unraveled; however, it is a book with seemingly no direction. One minute you're learning about Alma the next we are in the mind of some random character who exists for a few pages and learning about their story.
There is too much information in this book. Third person omniscient is a poor choice for a book that involves so many characters for such a short time. The characters also have no depth, perhaps because we can't focus on just one and there's hardly any dialogue.
Considering Irina has a past of child pornography, you'd think I'd feel emotionally invested into her background but I didn't because it was told so matter-of-factly.
I wouldn't recommend this book.
There isn't really a plot line, aside from I suppose Irina and Seth trying to figure out who Ichimei is and finally figuring it out, or perhaps maybe it's Alma and Ichimei's love story unraveled; however, it is a book with seemingly no direction. One minute you're learning about Alma the next we are in the mind of some random character who exists for a few pages and learning about their story.
There is too much information in this book. Third person omniscient is a poor choice for a book that involves so many characters for such a short time. The characters also have no depth, perhaps because we can't focus on just one and there's hardly any dialogue.
Considering Irina has a past of child pornography, you'd think I'd feel emotionally invested into her background but I didn't because it was told so matter-of-factly.
I wouldn't recommend this book.