monica ♪'s Reviews > The Last Leaves Falling

I bought this book since few years ago but it was just sitting on my bookshelf.
I've been picked this up and put it down all over again few times until I finally managed to finish this.

I love Japan. Words can't describe how much I love this country and its cultures. So when I read the synopsis of this book, I knew I had to pick this book up.
I'm always curious about the story that set in Japan (with Japanese cultures in it) that's written by a non-Japanese author.
But too bad, although the story set in Japan and characters with Japanese name, I think the author didn't really picture the habit and culture of native Japanese people.

The concept of the story is good actually. But I feel like it's lack of something that makes this book pretty boring. That's why I kept putting it down for several times. I've started reading this book around October/November 2018, but I kept on putting it down because this was just bored me to death. I even almost DNF-ed it.
Especially the chatroom conversation part. I feel like there's no correlation between the convo and the story line. It's just a waste of my time reading them *eyerolls*

It's like, there's a good gift but wrapped in a dull package that makes it looks really boring. That's how I feel about this book.
What a shame.

This book is pretty much Me Before You and The Fault in our Stars combined.
I think the point of the story is just the few last chapters. I feel like the rest are just pointless. I didn't even know where the story was going at first. And I hate the ending.
This book is just so boring. Sorry not sorry.

I was really, really looking forward to reading this book back then but too bad it's really disappointing.