This book had so many good reviews I feel awkward rating The Lake with a 2.5 in total.

We follow the past and present of a teacher named Gimpei who's also obsessed with following young girls (he's in his thirties and his obsessions are minors. Gross) and his affair with his ex student, a girl who wasn't very willingly to be with him at first (I doubt she ever felt comfortable with him). For a few pages we get to know the woman he followed in the first pages and, to be honest, I was more interested in her side of the story (I saw her as counterpart as she 'dated' an older man) and I was expecting to switch back to her POV but that was all.

I don't know what to feel in general. Somehow this feel incomplete to me, like the story had more to tell but never happened but, at the same time, I was left with a clear image of Gimpei's true colors and somehow that feels alright. I don't know, I don't know. Mixed feelings about this book.