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(4.54/5)Exciting Thriller From Start to End
Simple plot summary: A four-year-old kid was found dead in a school where her mother, Yuko Moriguchi, teaches. Apparently, the cause of death is not by accident, it was two of Yuko's students that killed her.
It's my favorite Japanese book so far. Simple premise but every character is written excellently, which is very important in this kind of story.
The first chapter is the hardest part of this book, the writing style is quite unique for a first-person perspective so it's probably going to t
Not as hard as the beginning suggests
I started this as my 10th book in japanese. After about 5% of the book, i wanted to drop it, because it felt way to hard for me. It has a unique writing style in that it talks to the reader sometimes(which are other people in the story reading letters etc.) and that threw me off quite a bit. But i heard that it would become more normal after the first chapter, and it did.
I'm glad i pushed through, it was an amazing read! Also from a learning perspective it had quite a few grammar points that
There's not much substantial information to add which other reviews haven't covered, so I'll be brief:
Content warnings: Child death, references to suicide, murder, animal abuse
Difficulty: The first chapter is by far the most complex and it dips into a fast paced read after that
Personal enjoyment: I love books about complicated, largely unlikeable people and stories with twisted circumstances and relationships. This book 100% scratched that itch. I enjoyed each chapter as layers were
As language learning, the opening difficulty everyone else mentions is real. I found the late sections (~80% on?) to spike as well at times, with rather lengthy sentences on somewhat abstract musing and a lot of abrupt, easy to miss subject changes. The vocab is fairly straightforward, though, and it's not overly descriptive since it's all told in monologues and the like.
The content itself is good, though I grew a bit weary by the end. It's a pretty well-considered thriller with a lot of inte
It is the last homeroom lesson of the school year and homeroom teacher Moriguchi Yuko still has a few things she wants to tell her students of class B, 1st year of middle school. Firstly, that the death of her 4-year-old daughter was not an accident. Secondly, that i was pupils of this very class that killed her.
These statements lead to a series of "confessions" (告白) made by different characters, but all involved in this very case. Gradually, more and more layers emerge and the perspectives ad