Pachinko

For more than half of the book I felt pretty sure that I was going to give a 5 stars review. Beautiful historic background, compelling characters, interesting plot, etc... everything was going great. Then, all of a sudden, the characters started to act “out of character” and the plot pretty quickly slid to melodrama, then to soap opera and then to absurd, like in the worst B movies in which the actors that were supposed to be smart do the most stupid things...