Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa Book Review

 Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales 

By Yoko Ogawa 


Released Year : 2013 

Page count : 169 pages 

Medium Used: reMarkable 2

Genre : Dark, Short Stories, Drama, Gore, 2024-read. 

Rating : 4/5 



I enjoyed reading these little short stories .. each of which contain some dark tale - although I didn't feel them to be so gore or filled with macabre. They are also interconnected .. some of them are told from different POVs of the characters involved and some are stories within stories. The gender of the character narrating a tale is unknown .. most of the times it distinctly felt female even when it turned to be a male. This book felt so very comfortable and cozy to read with a hit cup of coffee. I couldn't relinquish reading it. I kept going, making some 'aha' mental connections between the different stories. Though it didn't feel like that's the way it is written, I would have liked to have a hierarchical structure to the story linkage .. like some stories/tale referenced within another and that referenced within another etc. 


Overall, a easy, breezy, comfortable read. Do check these out. The prose is good. The sentence formation is good. The atmosphere and ambience is good. Overall, its a 4 pointer from me. 🍻 🥂 cheers! 


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