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Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

yandiii's review

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

chels14's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

yennifer's review

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3.5

The human materials kind of makes sense, though the skin veil did give me some heebies and jeebies. Poochie made me so uncomfortable

partycat's review against another edition

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dark funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

kimchifairy's review

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Refreshing and peculiar, if a little repetitive. There are essentially two kinds of story here: a deviant, counter-normative individual battles either against the norms of a world roughly resembling our own, or those of a world in which our norms (usually concerning sex, food, death or some combination) have been grotesquely inverted. This makes for a lot of arresting images - a woman inserting a bottle of a stranger's semen into herself after eating the corpse of her dead coworker is pretty typical - but they do rather lose their power once the general conceit has been well established.

queenamidala's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

jotothejo's review

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dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

joj's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

charismae_reads's review

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mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

crybaby_chloe's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I love Sayaka Murata, that little freak