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medini_l's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Terminal illness, Animal death, Confinement, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Child death, Blood, Death, and Child abuse
sydoodle's review
3.0
This was fine. Cool concept. Kind of lost interest and felt not much after, but still liked reading. I am so scared of children.
Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Transphobia, and Terminal illness
alisonfaith426's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Abandonment and Torture
Minor: Blood, Chronic illness, Self harm, and Sexual content
novi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
This is a very fast paced book, you can finish it in one sitting. There are parts that could make you exhausted, and there are parts that got a little boring, but most of it is a real page turner.
What I knew about this book before reading it was that it's about a teacher talked to a group of students, saying that she knew that they're the ones that killed her child in the past, and it made these students scrambling basically. And I thought the child was the same age as these students, and they're adult now. But noooo lol a bunch of reviewers talked about synopsis differently that it made me confused.
So the setting is in the current day, in a middle school. A middle school teacher's daughter was found dead. She was 4 years old. It was said to be accident, but the teacher (the mother) then realized she was actually murdered by her own students. This book is her revenge. And it was a satisfying revenge.
But me having a vague picture about this book made my reading experience so much better and more tense, because I didn't even knew what's gonna happen and how this book was formatted so uniquely. Tbh i was a bit hesitant to pick another popular japanese murder book after Girls in the Dark, but this book has a lottt of good reviews from people i actually trust. Plus i read The Decagon House Murders and i really liked it. The reviews are right. The story telling is unique, i would say it's a bit similar with Girls in the Dark BUT the execution is so so so much better.
I said this book was about revenge, so if you like the "good for her" stories, this is for you, but i think a lot of it is also about gender roles in traditional families, dysfunctional family, and parenting. The multiple POVs in this book really shows that what's seen is not always what's real, and you get to see where and why a person behaves like this and that, and i love that.
I took half the star because i can't give 5 stars to books that made me uncomfortable like this lol i mean it's really good but it didn't give me the "omg it's sooo perfect" feeling.
Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Mental illness, Bullying, Murder, Child death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent
spooderman's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death, Violence, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Vomit, Sexism, Bullying, Confinement, Abandonment, Murder, Medical trauma, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Pregnancy, Ableism, and Transphobia
Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Homophobia
sasuke's review
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness
Minor: Animal death and Forced institutionalization