I really wanted to enjoy this book as I'm a massive Murakami fan and I had heard so many good comparative reviews, but I found it unfortunately, a letdown. Going into the book with a comparative hope to Murakami probably isn't fair and this is most likely the root of my disappointment - holding it alight to Murakami and not receiving it as its own - a standalone novel by a completely different author.

There were parts of the book I highly enjoyed - these being the conversations that Tsukiko had with herself. Other than this I found the book to be quite disjointed and the characters lacked depth and persona. I didn't relate to either of them, not because I didn't want to, but because there was nothing in the story that anchored me to the characters. They were one dimensional and their personalities boring.

The storyline was written around nothing. It didn't build and it didn't really go anywhere - it felt haphazard and pointless. I was interested and slightly captivated at the beginning of the book, but after the first few chapters, I just lost the entire point of the story - it felt like it was going nowhere. Words on a pages just for the sake of it. It was so lacklustre. I also found the ending was rushed - it didn't really sum up the relationship or what happened or where it was going. I found it lazy and underwhelming.

Unfortunately a disappointment.