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Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Incest, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore
Minor: Incest, Infidelity, Car accident
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, Murder
When a writer learns of an oddly built house from his friends and decides to dive deeper into its bizarre layout he stumbled upon a mystery spanning generations involving hidden rooms, family secrets, and dismembered bodies.
The last act of the book was the only tough part for me with a massive info dump from one of the characters at the end. I wish the book had been longer to make space for slowly letting the characters discover the information rather than having it all kind of laid out for them at the end. I understood the character's motivation for info dumping but I wish a good chunk of that had been discovered in different ways and then you come to them for the big reveal.
Overall, I loved Strange Houses, it was a quick read with lots of twists and turns and the inclusion of floorplans throughout the story and all the visuals added to the fun of trying to figure out the mystery. I have yet to read Strange Pictures, Uketsu's other book, but I'll definitely be picking it up next.
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Grief, Murder
Graphic: Death, Incest, Murder
Moderate: Child death
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse
Minor: Confinement, Incest, Violence, Murder, Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Murder
Minor: Gore
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Car accident
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Murder
Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent
Aku menemukan kalau cara penyampaian dialog dalam buku ini unik. Mirip dengan script drama sehingga dialognya mudah untuk dibaca dan dipahami.
Penulisan untuk terjemahan buku ini juga mudah dipahami. Jadi gak ngerasa kesulitan dan makin gak bisa berhenti untuk baca sampai akhir. Pace cerita yang disajikan juga cepat, aku rasa emang dilarang buat berhenti baca di tengah jalan. Ya, emang. Gak boleh baca di tengah jalan karena nanti ketabrak. Jokes jelek, maaf.
Aku juga suka bagaimana denah selalu digambarkan sehingga memudahkan aku sebagai pembaca untuk membayangkannya. Tanpa perlu menggambar sendiri. Lalu, kejutan yang diberikan rasanya berlapis-lapis dan membuatku speechless. Sempat parno juga pas baca bagian bayangan anak kecil, mana waktu itu lagi sendirian. Argh.
Graphic: Death, Incest, Murder
Minor: Child death, Confinement