"This time, the sun in my sky will be extinguished by my own hands." Tokyo in 2017 overlaps with Aichi in 1984. The suspect has confessed to the crimes he committed many years ago, but his confession has led everyone into a deeper maze. The murderer's son and the deceased's daughter both had doubts about the police's conclusions, so they secretly joined forces to investigate and gradually uncovered the secrets their fathers had hidden throughout their lives. Good and evil, right and wrong, crime and punishment, logic and sensibility... All seemingly opposite and incompatible things reversed their positions in front of the huge gear of fate, yin and yang were reversed, and finally merged into one.
"Light and shadow coexist, day and night coexist, just like white birds and bats dancing in the air." ---Thirty-three years ago, that knife should have pierced my heart. I killed someone, and three days later, the police caught another murderer. I want to protect my family, but I end up putting others in misfortune. It turns out that after escaping the law, pain and fear were my real punishment. Now, the lie is the truth. The man who threatened me to confess everything must disappear. Once again I had to take an innocent life. What I said above are all lies.
Reader comments
Step by step, peeling off the cocoon, Higashino's book talks about details gently and reveals human nature. The writing style is quite delicate, but it is also Higashino's style. When the veil is unveiled at the last step, there is a feeling of clouds opening and the moon shining, and the aftertaste is endless...
The plot of this book is ups and downs and full of suspense, just like a white bird and a bat dancing in the air. Keigo Higashino's writing is always so charming and makes me fall deeply into it. Moreover, the discussion of good and evil, crime and punishment in the book is also very profound and thought-provoking. "The sun in my sky will be extinguished by my own hands." This sentence impressed me deeply. It is really a good book worth reading!
It can only be regarded as average for Keigo Higashino. Halfway through the story, you roughly know the final result. The truth of the matter is not very surprising. The protagonist Kuraki's way of atonement many years later is not logical enough and is a bit of a joke. But Keigo Higashino's average level is much better than the extraordinary level of many writers!
Okay, I prefer this kind of story with emotional scenes but not much.
I don't know who is the instigator of the thirty years, so the timeline is so long and finally ends with a fourteen-year-old boy. Except for Ash Valley, everyone is an NPC in this game. Under the control of a pair of big hands, they take turns playing. All I can say is that everyone is the carrier of this tragedy, which ultimately forms a closed loop.
Everything in the world is destined to reincarnate, and the struggle to reverse the situation is in vain.
The ending of the story does have a twist.
The intersection of day and night, the confrontation between sin and evil
Step by step, peeling off the cocoon, Higashino's book talks about details gently and reveals human nature. The writing style is quite delicate, but it is also Higashino's style. When the veil is unveiled at the last step, there is a feeling of clouds opening and the moon shining, and the aftertaste is endless...
The plot of this book is ups and downs and full of suspense, just like a white bird and a bat dancing in the air. Keigo Higashino's writing is always so charming and makes me fall deeply into it. Moreover, the discussion of good and evil, crime and punishment in the book is also very profound and thought-provoking. "The sun in my sky will be extinguished by my own hands." This sentence impressed me deeply. It is really a good book worth reading!
It can only be regarded as average for Keigo Higashino. Halfway through the story, you roughly know the final result. The truth of the matter is not very surprising. The protagonist Kuraki's way of atonement many years later is not logical enough and is a bit of a joke. But Keigo Higashino's average level is much better than the extraordinary level of many writers!
Okay, I prefer this kind of story with emotional scenes but not much.
I don't know who is the instigator of the thirty years, so the timeline is so long and finally ends with a fourteen-year-old boy. Except for Ash Valley, everyone is an NPC in this game. Under the control of a pair of big hands, they take turns playing. All I can say is that everyone is the carrier of this tragedy, which ultimately forms a closed loop. Everything in the world is destined to reincarnate, and the struggle to reverse the situation is in vain.
The ending of the story does have a twist.
The intersection of day and night, the confrontation between sin and evil
Same standard as always
I feel mixed after reading this...