Review: Yokai Attack!
Book 8 in #PaperbackSummer is Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide. While this book introduces the reader to ghosts, monsters, and demons that are much less known but that are a traditional part of Japanese folklore, it is... somehow boring. In a way, it read like an ecology textbook. Of course, is interesting to know the characteristics of each yokai and their traditional locations, but the book lacks excitement even when it does share bits of the actual tales the yokai come from.
Positives:
Names and pronunciations of the yokai
Color artwork
Strengths/Weaknesses, in case we ever meet them in real life
Brief history of where each yokai would be found
Negatives:
Books reads like a textbook rather than a collection of folklore
Some yokai include stories of when yokai were seen, but many others don't
*Library copy*
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