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🎧 Audiobook Review 🎧

I feel like I'm missing the point?

I love the first half even if they keep going on and on about the sweet bean paste and dorayaki. However, I love food so I didn't quite mind this part about food and cooking. I am, of course, salivating and contemplating where I can get some tomorrow.

The story took an unexpected turn after halfway or rather, not quite unexpected just that the exact topic/theme was unexpected. And while I didn't mind ending that much, I also feel a little unsatisfied.

BWF - Team Sassy Sisters - Letter S - 33x 5-stars

I liked it a little better than you (4 stars) but I agree it was a very sudden shift to the second half of the book.

I think the second half is what the author wanted to write, and used the first half to gain sympathy for Tokue. I think I would have had sympathy regardless, but (from the book anyway) I got the impression there is still real prejudice about her condition in Japan.

I understand his goal in the end but I just didn't quite appreciate the sudden change in the wind because it changed the whole novel for me.