Nipponia Nippon - BookWyrm

English language

Published Feb. 3, 2023 by Steerforth Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-78227-853-5

(1 review)

Isolated in his Tokyo apartment, 17-year-old Haruo spends all his time online, researching the plight of the endangered Japanese crested ibis, Nipponia Nippon.

Living on an allowance from his parents, he drops ever further into a fantasy world in which he alone shares a special connection with the last of these noble birds, held at a conservation centre on the island of Sado.

His conclusion is simple: it is his destiny to free the birds from a society that does not appreciate them, by whatever means necessary. With his emotional state becoming ever more erratic, he begins sourcing weapons and preparing for a reckoning in this darkly ironic study of toxic masculinity.

1 edition

Taylor Drew reviewed Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe

Incel: A Novel

2 stars

I don't know what this book was trying to achieve, but it definitely didn't achieve it for me. I spend enough time experiencing the consequences of the incel movement(?) in daily life that I really don't have time for it in my fiction.

I just really can't see what this book was trying to achieve in the format that it's in. A pretty disappointing read honestly and further evidence that the synopsis reading for the books in this series don't have very good expectations setting mechanisms in place.