Books finished in 2025: pre list start

[vivdunstan]

Just finished my first book of 2025. An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson. Dark academia. 3/5 stars. Now for my next novel started Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, my book club read this month. Initial impressions: writing style a bit brisk for my taste but sticking with it.

Comments

[greenwoodside]

Interested in your impressions of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. I was on the verge of buying it but skimmed a few pages in Waterstones and thought it might be a bit too twee/reliant on platitudes.

I'm happy with some tweeness, but there needs to be a counterweight of some kind as well (like plot, an eye for character and setting etc) to balance it out.