かがみの孤城

Conflicted emotions

If I were to rate this book on the first 25%, I'd give it 4＊

If I were to rate this book on the last 25%, I'd give it 5＊

If I were to rate this book on most of what's in between, I'd give it 3＊

Some parts in the middle 50% were good, had lots of emotional impact and character growth, but some of the parts are simply bad writing. It's really hard to make it sound like I'm not just being grumpy without spoilers though. Among other things, there were some oddities/inconsistencies in character behavior and a 22 page long part that is utterly pointless (No, I am not exaggerating) that was pretty frustrating to read and could have been cut by at least 15 pages without changing anything. (Again, not exaggerating)

I feel like why people are rating this book so highly is mostly because the ending had really high emotional impact. I read that 22 page part, which I had to put the book away for multiple times because reading it was so incredibly tedious, just yesterday and got really frustrated about it. Now I... don't really care anymore. It was still incredibly unnecessary, but it doesn't matter as much.

Over all this is a good book, doubly so because it's fairly easy for how interesting it is. If you like them feels, give it a try.