Mitchell Foye

Hilarious start that had me intrigued to get to the bottom of it. I could chew on this for a long time

Spoiler alert . A fusion of love story and crime thriller, cat and mouse espionage and completely random and interesting side stories. This novel could easily be halved in length with some editing though. No more little people and no more stressing about this air chrysalis novel. I’m so happy to be done with it. The two moons actually frustrated me after awhile, what really drew me into the story was Aomame , such a deadly woman, so decisive like a venomous snake. Secretive and powerful. I see some similarities with kill bill (Uma Thurman) actress with her unexpected pregnancy and sudden need to flee her dangerous life. Tamaru is another very interesting character who is also secretive and deadly efficient at his occupation. Ushikawa comes along later in the novel as a repulsive PI , his character is very well developed and his true ugliness. I started to think of him like Javert , the policeman from les-miserables. So cold and distant from humanity, a true rodent. I really despise this character and that’s a credit to Murakami. Things were tied up quite nicely with the end and much more optimistic than part 1,s end.

Takes some time to find your bearings on this fascinating planet but once you get aquatinted with the flora and fauna, you will often times ask yourself, how was this written in 1965. It is layered , like a Russian doll. Scientific at times but also strangely gun hoe. With brutal knife fights and painstaking detail to martial arts philosophy and training. Poetically beautiful descriptions of landscapes, mind bending hallucinogens and characters that grapple with it in order to see into the future, telepathy and psychic visions. Both book and 2021film compliment each other perfectly.