#otsuichi

My haul today from a couple book stores, Penny lane, and a walgreens for the hair spray.

Currently 19 pages into ‘In the Miso Soup’ and enjoying the writing style so far. In a real horror kick lately.

5/5

I hadn’t planned on reading this today but damn, I sat and couldn’t put this down.

This is about Morino, a school girl who has a fascination with serial killers. And this town is hot bed for them. She doesn’t want to catch them, but to understand them.

This is told through a series of short stories; more like vignettes; of what this girl and her friend encounter in their town and start to seek out. This was a ride. I enjoyed the writing- translated works always have a bit of disconnect, but it works in this book’s favour. I found myself feeling uncomfortable as this went on; the situations and the characters seemed to get a bit more drastic and more in person with everything that goes on.

I feel like if you liked True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik you’d like this. It’s not as extreme but it has the same vibes. If you enjoy true crime in general really, I think you should pick this up.

TW: animal abuse; if that’s a trigger or sensitive spot don’t read. I did find it not as brutal as other books but it is a huge part of one of the chapters,

June has now come to an end.

The best book I took out of it was definitely "Goth", by Otsuichi. It's peculiarity consist in it's plot twists and in the alternations in povs.

The plot (no spoilers): these two guys (a boy and a girl) are obsessed with crimes and always look to reach out for murders and "monsters", always in some way being dragged into dangerous situations.

It's extrimely dark but in my opinion it wasn't too much gore, I'd say it was the proper ammount. I've loved the darkness in the atmospheres that Otsuichi was able to display.

The main characters are a little bit odd, so it's not easy to come in emphaty with these two (that's also because it's them that are completely apathetic in first place).

These months I was probably craving for some japanese horror, also because my May's favourite book was "In the miso soup" by Ryu Murakami (also if I would have rather enjoyed a different ending to this one...), so here we are.

I found out there is also a manga adaptation and the panels that can be found around seems amaizingly drawn.