This is one of the best books I read this year. 

I thought I would never enjoy it for these type of books usually teach you nothing. I was very wrong. It was amazing character building by the author. How I my bias changed back and forth between the two main characters and ended up hating them both at the end. Not every author could do that obviously. It takes a lot of emotional approach a reader has to invest in these characters. There was something real about these unreal characters of the story.

The shifting duo POV writing style I have seen through Murakami's writing is one of my favourite writing styles. Murakami uses that with 3rd person POV which avoids confusion as little things the characters don't notice could be noticed by the readers. But first person narrative in this story made it personal, easy to describe what was going on in the minds of the two main characters as that was really really important to understand whys and how's. Also timelines between their narratives were at first not parallel but as the story was becoming undone, their timeline POVs became parallel which I thought was really smart of the author to do so. 

I did not like the ending. I felt like all the climaxes was building up for something big for the great ending but it did not happen. I wanted something to happen to them both but it did not. That was how invested I was in the characters.