Gō Kanō, a novelist living in Abashiri, Hokkaido, dotes on his beloved younger sister Aya. So when Aya gets a job at a trading company, moves out on her own in Yūbari, and eventually gets engaged to her colleague Okutsu, Gō is devastated. Then Okutsu's infidelity comes to light — and the shock drives Aya to take her own life by jumping from a window. Vowing revenge, Gō lures Okutsu to Abashiri and kills him. He hides the body in his car and sets off for Yūbari to construct an alibi — but along t...
This book was cool! Unexpected! I found the writing style neither good nor particularly interesting, but I have to applaud the author for coming up with such a plot. There are a lot of moments that make you go „oh come on that‘s absurd“. But I can see past the flaws because the payoff was worth it.
The basic plot goes like this: MC plans to kill the ex-fiancé of his sister because ex-fiancé caused her to commit suicide. MC commits the murder, and then on his way back home two different plot lines start: in one plot line he runs over a passerby, panics, puts the body in his trunk and disposes of it. In the other plot line, he almost runs him over, but doesn’t kill him. The guy he almost ran over finds out where he lives, etc, and the plot develops from there. Like a parallel universe.
Which is an interesting premise. We see the stories progress differently, different truths come to light, different theories being developed etc. It’s quite interesting to gain information in one of the plot lines and then being able to „read ahead“ in the other plot line.
If you don’t mind some flat and boring writing and a lot of dialogue with a lot of (weird and absurd) details and a lot of people out for revenge, but you love a good twist ending that makes you go „omg everything makes sense now!“, I would recommend this book.