18 - Confessions, by Kanae Minato
WHY I PICKED IT: Saw it in a bookstore, and it looked good
ELAPSED TIME: 1 week
RATING: Good
The book starts out fantastic. A teacher on the verge of retirement tells a story to her class about why she's retiring so young. This story reveals two of their peers' sociopathic behaviour, and her revenge against them for a heinous act.
The remainder of the book, sadly, does not live up to this beginning. Twists and turns and too much action take the story from gripping to a poor man's Hemingway: this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened... without richness of language or depth of character.
Disappointing, if not for the first 50 pages.
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