Confessions

The word revenge is a very controversial one, and I think that most people you would talk to would say that it's not worth going after. "The best revenge is living a happy life," and such. But we as humans also want things to be equal; we want the people that make us suffer to suffer just as much as they made us. So, I think a well-written revenge story is incredibly appealing to read, and Confessions gives us just that. Each chapter is written by a different person in the story and ultimately tells the story of a teacher's revenge on the two students who killed her child. It's brutal, it's dark, and it's incredibly well written. I think that a couple of chapters feel a tiny bit repetitive, as events are rehashed again and again. But most often I felt that Minato was adding new layers to the story, and so it wasn't a humongous problem by any means. I think she is also able to make the juveniles in the novel feel like actual juveniles, which is crucial when writing a novel about the ethics and morals of middle grade students.

Japanese horror is just on another level.

Read primarily because: Goodreads TBR.