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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Yuichiro Sakaeda, a night watchman at the huge K Hills complex, meets a girl who looks like a ghost during his midnight patrol. The girl takes Sakaeda to the site of a murder plot being carried out in a residence in the Hills. After that, Sakaeda's associates die mysterious deaths one after another, but the girl is involved in all of them. This is a new edition of the shocking full-length horror suspense.
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(3.33/5)Light reading, page turner without difficult vocabulary
The description of this book as 'horror/suspense', seems a bit excessive. Like other Akagawa's, there are plenty of casualties, but there is no gore, and this is neither dark nor uncomfortable to read. Not sure the story makes a huge amount of sense, and there are some threads left unresolved (possibly leaving it open for a sequel). This is a good, relatively easy read for intermediate level Japanese learners.
If Jerry Springer and Deathnote had a baby...
Don't go into this book with expectations, but if you like ghosts, affairs, and death, you'll love this.
Despite the excess of characters, the book is a very easy read. There is a lot of dialogue which makes for good reading practice but also fills the pages with white-space. It was my 5th book and was the second easiest. There is very rarely any technical vocabulary.
Entertainment-wise, it's great. Akagawa is a prolific writer and his work isn't exactly literature, but it's fun. This book is