Thursday, December 19, 2024

2024 book 201

 Kelly Murashige's The Lost Souls of Benzaiten

This is about a depressed teen girl who makes a wish at a Japanese shrine (her wish is to be a robot vacuum cleaner lol) and the goddess appears and is like “I’ll help you find the joy in life in the next five weeks!” I will say this wasn’t always predictable, but the second half kind of loses the thread for a while and the ending is maybe too neat. Also, I’m in my mid-40s and not the target audience for a YA book, so YMMV. B/B+.

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