Kamikaze Girls - Novala Takemoto

Kamikaze Girls was first released in Japan under the title Shimotsuma Monogatari (which means Shimotsuma story in Japanese) and is by Novala Takemoto. To be honest, I didn't know this was a book for quite a while, I read it a few years after watching the film of the same title. Since then though, I'd read this dozens of times. For any fans of the movie, the novel is pretty much the same, although there are slight differences, and a lot more detail. The story centres on Momoko, a teenager living in the remote Japanese countryside and trying her hardest to live the Lolita lifestyle, that of a maiden from the Rococo era of France. She takes a ridiculously long ...  Read the complete review