I was lured into reading this with the Japanese setting, and as I started it I thought it might be a bit of an interesting sci fi type story. Had I known it was magical realism, I might not have bothered (do we call this speculative fiction now? I don't really know...) but anyway, suddenly people are jumping through puddles into an alternate world (I think) and I got nervous.
It actually wasn't as bad as I'd thought...I decided to let the whole thing wash over me and not worry about what was going on. Even when someone got folded into origami to travel somewhere else I just la la la'd my way through. Mainly because of the physicist character, who I liked, and who I wanted to know more about. I like Kei more and more, and Hana less and less.
It's a strange, magical fantasy romance. I'm not sure about the ending. I wasn't sure about some of the middle. Some of it is great, and some of it was dull, but it kept me reading.
Title: Water Moon
Author: Samantha Sotto Yambao
ISBN: 9780857505330
To be published 16th January 2025
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