It has been quite some time since i was totally in love with a book. I did, just last week I was internally craving for this book titled: Yakuza Moon. Yakuza is a japan words translated in English it is Gangster. Here is the cover page of the story book:


The cover page girl is the writer herself, if you read this book, she had herself tattoo, can be seen in this picture here:


As i said, I have never been in love with any books since my previous book "the giver" one of the great books i fell head over heel. Back to Yakuza Moon, it talks about her life, on how she has a gangster dad, how rebellious she was. All the gangster life she been through. The life of her being mistress and how she got abused by all these married guys cause they were simply obsess over her.

Review:
Yakuza Moon is brutal, honest, and scary. Shoko Tendo takes you through her turbulent childhood and the life built around her yakuza father. She recounts the many times he came home drunk in the middle of the night and tore the house apart and later beat Shoko. Soon she has fallen in with a tough crowd and has become a yanki, what basically amounts to a juvenile delinquent.

When she gets older she moves on from sniffing paint thinner and ditching school to shooting up and dating married men. She quickly becomes a kept woman who is shuffled about, never really being her own person, and all of this before she is even 23 years old.

Yakuza Moon is hard to read at times. The almost constant abuse that Shoko went through is heartbreaking and painful to read about. It is written in such a direct manner. The hard core drug use, the different boyfriends beating her, attempted suicide, and rape is presented to the reader as simple fact, with a sort of detachment through which you can only feel horror or pity for this young woman.

A lot of things happen off stage, as it were, and you are only treated to the highlights of a very painful past. There are incidents mentioned in passing that are never fully explained. But for the most part it does not distract from the flow of the story. The overall impression is of a young woman who went through hell but came out the other side a stronger person. This is a woman who has earned respect finally, and is not afraid to demand it.

After everything she is strong. The world is full of people struggling to survive and overcome - striving to be the person that they always dreamed that they could be, that they hoped deep down was still inside and had not been killed off by their mistakes. Sometimes the hardest thing to overcome is yourself, the person in the mirror can be your own worst enemy and learning to put the past behind you the hardest lesson to learn in life. Yakuza Moon is a triumph simply because Shoko Tendo overcame the atrocity that her life had become.

“I think a lot about the moon," she says. "How it constantly waxes and wanes, just like my life with its highs and lows. I like to think of myself as having been born under a new moon. Then, in those uncertain days when I was searching for love, I guess the moon would have become a crescent. It was probably about a half-moon when I got married."

But, as the author goes one, "Now that I’m alone, do I warrant a full moon? Have I finally overcome my weaknesses and grown up? I’m heading along a new path in life, but if it turns out to be a dead end, I guess I can start over with the next full moon.”

The descriptions in the book simply lead me on to continue reading it even make me skipped my lunch for today. Bringing it everywhere I go, I just couldn't get myself off the book till I reach the last page. It was all worthwhile, I completed the whole book within today, a total of 187 pages of a great story. This book is NC 16, probably because there descriptions inside are very vivid till u can imagine it, and also take yourself as the main character role. It is indeed moving towards the end, and as you are having all those words emotional in you, you will have cried in the last 2 chapters which I did.

Overall I rate this book 5 star out of 5! SP library has this book, but there are 11 reserves. Do tagged if you would like to borrow this book from me. No rental charges, just keep it in good condition and return it. (Unless I know u well enough)

Lastly, thank you! to the person who help me buy this book. You know who you are! =)

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