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Title: ConfessionsAuthor: Kanae Minato, Stephen Snyder (translator)
Published: 2008
Language: English (translated from Japanese)
Pages: 235
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
A teacher whose child dies at the school she works at decides to seek revenge on the kids who caused her only child's death, which has unexpected and terrible consequences.
Review:
This was really, really dark and I loved it!
This story is told from several different perspectives, so every character we read from has one chapter each and we see what's going on from their point of view. I felt like that worked really well, although some parts of the narratives naturally felt a little repetitive. All the characters are fascinating though and I loved getting inside their heads and see what disturbing stuff was going on in there. There aren't really any good guys in here; everyone is complicated and complex and unlikeable in one way or the other.
There are a lot of twists and turns in this and I didn't really see any of them coming, so that was very exciting. The whole book has a really sinister and twisted vibe to it that's just fantastic.
There are some lulls throughout the book and like I mentioned, it sometimes gets a little repetitive, but otherwise, I very much enjoyed this and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers.
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