Kay’s Reviews > The Street of a Thousand Blossoms > Status Update

ok, ok, I'm still reading and it's gotten better, things are finally starting to move on. I think maybe Tsukiyama wanted to establish what was good about the characters' lives before it started getting bad, but it was just too much, too icky, I don't know how else to describe it.

"Fumiko smiled, sipped the fragrant soup, and felt the salty warmth slip down her throat." Ack. Ack. Ack. It's too much!

I feel like I should be saying this book is AMAZING, but I just...can't. I'm sorry, I am bored! I can't describe quite how I'm feeling as I read, almost as though the author wants it to sound good and fascinating and poetical, but I just don't feel it. It hasn't earned it yet.