Confessions by Kanae Minato

Confessions by Kanae Minato
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This review might contain spoilers.
I bought this book as soon as I read the premise, because it was just too intriguing. A teacher’s little daughter has been killed by her students and she seeks revenge. It sounded interesting and the beginning did capture my interest, but the more I read the more I rolled my eyes. There was too much of everything in one short book. How come there were so many sociopaths and bullies in a single class of 13 y.o. kids? And not just the kids: there were 3 mothers in the book and all 3 were weird in one way or the other. One was abusive, the other dotted on her kid too much and in the end decided to kill him and herself, and the third, the teacher, starts a revenge which results in the death of an innocent student, but she doesn’t even feel guilty. Not in the least. She does something else in the end, which again was just too unbelievable. I know that grief might drive people to madness, but that was too much.
Also, one of the evil kids was too genius, the other too stupid. In the age of internet and technology, a 13 y.o boy in Japan doesn’t think about testing his blood at a lab or googling AIDS which he thinks he has contacted? Not plausible. As for the genius, he was smart but also an idiot to tell of his evil plan on his website. Oh well...
A lot of things in this book were implausible and if I start writing about everything that bugged me, this will become a very long review.
As I said, the premise was interesting, but I was expecting something else. I don’t know, something more serious. This book read like a young adult revenge story, not an adult thriller.


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