September 15, 2023

Content warnings: Murder, suicide

General plot: A group of people go to an island where it is prophesied that 6 people will die on a certain date.

Language learning: There is a LOT of dialectical speech in this book and also a pretty wide stretch of vocabulary. Perhaps if you, for some reason or another, are already quite familiar with the dialects in use, the rating will kick down a notch or two for you - but for the average learner who is mostly reading and hearing Tokyo Japanese it will be more difficult.

Review: Overall I enjoyed this book. The pacing could be better and it never did seem to decide if it wanted to be horror, mystery, or drama. I think it would have been better if it committed to two and left the other a bit, all three ended up leaving each a bit wanting.

There is a big twist at the end of the book, but like omk3, I didn't think it held the punch it was intended to. I've seen similar twists executed better.

All this said it was still a good read, I finished it eagerly to know the conclusion, and would recommend it without qualms because as far as mystery/horror goes the list of content warnings is pretty small!

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