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The only thing stopping me from giving this a one star rating is that I only give that to truly horrible things. That said, this book was tedious and annoying if if I hadn't been reading it with the book club I would have dropped it long before the end.
Difficulty wise it has some old fashioned kanji variants, some unusual names, and the dialogue is awful. My biggest trouble getting through this book was not the difficulty of the language but how much of a drag it was to read. I simply stopped caring at some point. The protagonist repeatedly explains everything to you. Obvious things. Things he has explained before. There is an art to leaving things unsaid which is dearly missed here.
Minor call outs for incest (cousins) and questionable treatment of a relationship between a minor (16ish) and an adult (25ish). It doesn't go deep into these relationships at all, but they definitely raised eyebrows in the book club, especially given how they were handled by surrounding characters.