One of the strangest yet interesting books I've read. Honestly, go in blind if you want something very different and dark. Loved it

This is a super interesting and psychological book. I really think its best to go in with as little information as possible, bearing in mind, however, that is has content that could definitely be triggering.

I tried with this one, but just couldn't find my way through the darkness... It started out intriguing. There were moments of that carried throughout. But the overall tale felt a bit more meandering and brow-furrowing than I was hoping it would. It's very dark. I don't mind dark, but I need to feel that the dark is taking me somewhere - rather than taking over just to make it dark. This one felt a little more of the latter than I tend to find appealing, and just wasn't a good fit for me.

My Annihilation is a well-crafted, dark and disturbing novel. It's a short and quick, yet impactful read. The twists and unreliable narrator give shocking impressions. Highly recommended!!

TW : suicide, depression, mental and physical abuse, rape and UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. 🧐

This is not the first book I've read from Fuminori Nakamura. My experience with The Thief completely different. My Annihilation is strange, intriguing and confusing at the same time. I've to reread coz I'm not sure what I understood that may cause wrong to the whole story.


The story begin with a man in a room. He found a manuscript of someone named Ryodai Kozuka and a white suitcase that contain a woman body. It's like he has some unfinished business and willing to replace his identity with Kozuka. Kozuka writes about his unhappy childhood and unlucky experience on woman that seems similar to narrator.

Thanks to @netgalley and the publisher for arc inexchange for an honest review.

I give 5 ⭐ 🖤

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<i>'That sort of thing might work in movies or in manga, but it won't fly in real life.'</i>

This is a fascinating piece of neo-noir zig-zagging in a series of frame narratives constructed with just the right amount of vagueness, so that you often forget whose voice you're lost in this time. This is appropriate for a book so interested in the tenuous nature of identity and the 'individual', swapping out and trying on new narratives in ways both figurative and literal.

I liked it. It has a lot to say about the fictionalisation of self and the act of losing oneself in fiction. One of those 'stories about the stories we tell ourselves in order to...' etc. It's not perfect, and I really don't care enough about psychoanalysis (in particular from the perspective of the analyst...) to find the recitation of psychoanalytic misogyny new or interesting. But beyond the sometimes tired-out shock content are formal qualities which kept me engaged and wondering, and made me ~think~ far more than the deliberate philosophical musings.

I received a digital review copy of this book from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

My Annihilation twists and turns to create a maze of words and ideas that easily loses the reader in the deepest recesses of the darkest minds.

Japanese fiction can be really weird and this one is a good example of that. But I mean weird in a good way. It was awesome. Won't say much because I think you should go as blind as possible so you'll to trust me on this one! Read it!