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There's so much going on here that it gets in the way of things like empathy or connection. It makes me wonder if too much characterization can be a problem, or if it's just that the character we see so much of in this book just sucks too much. Because she does. She's just a mess of self-loathing and terrible choices and suck.

It didn't do it for me, mostly because it seemed to be trying to be character heavy but the characters were simply not that interesting.

I'm starting to feel like modern American horror just isn't that covered with being scary anymore. It's all just metaphor for grief and trauma and disaffection.

I'm still on my Higashino kick, and this was a fun one. The plot kept on pumping and the characters were fun. It was very interesting getting a diet look into Kaga's family study, too.

I was struck by a slight drop in editorial quality, though. Giles's translation was as smooth as a always, but there were a few striking typos and clumsy structures that imply a rush job in the editing stage. Just a thing to think about.

Man, I slept too long on Higashono. He writes great page turners with actual humanity. And the translation was stellar!