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Content warnings: murder (including children), suicide, animal death
This book started out strong and was great for reading with a book club due to the slow unveiling of clues, unreliable narrators, and conflicting stories. It was fun to dissect.
That said, I felt it went on just a bit too long and the ending wasn't too my taste.
The writing in here will fluctuate a lot in difficulty with some chapters being breezy, easy reads and others intentionally confusing. It's often not clear who is speaking at the start of any chapter and you have to figure it out from their speaking style and what they relay about the events. The book club was bilingual and it sounded like the English translation took this ambiguity out and simply noted who was speaking at the beginning of each chapter.
Vocabulary wise it has a scattering of unusual words, but it sticks to a pretty solid core of repeated words and themes so I don't think vocab will be a blocker for most.