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dosxhime's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
4/5
Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Murder, Child death, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Terminal illness, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Miscarriage
kather_doc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Blood and Terminal illness
ilana_pop's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Death, Domestic abuse, and Bullying
dustghosts'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Child death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Child abuse
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Animal cruelty
rwnhlfx's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Abandonment, Violence, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child death, and Blood
Minor: Animal death
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
sparanj2's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death
Minor: Domestic abuse
james1star's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder and Death
Moderate: Child death, Grief, Bullying, Blood, and Terminal illness
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Transphobia, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Suicide, Child abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse
tabshirali's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Bullying, and Murder
Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts
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