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Confessions by Kanae Minato

49 reviews

beightmana's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Confinement, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

msctalented's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

angelayn's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Everyone is damaged and nobody is a saint here. It feels like you’re going in circles over and over because each chapter has a different person telling their point of view about the same incident but each time it reveals something deeper and darker and truly horrific. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, and Murder

allison_18's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

dusk025's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book answers the question:

what if the most toxic people within a 10-mile radius, including several children, just started beef for no reason and killed each other?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Transphobia, Mass/school shootings, and Pregnancy

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

✨ Reread ✨

I found this book on my old bookshelf and knew I had to reread it 😂

I am giving it a slightly lower rating than last time, as I found the translations clumsy, but I still loved reading it all the same. I also completely forgot what happened at the end last time, but I knew I found it compelling to read (hence the reread).

The bomb going off made me audibly gasp! 😳

4 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

clovetra's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

holy shit. i don’t think ive enjoyed a book like that in a while, where im so engrossed i literally put life on hold to read it. sure, i love all my 5-star rankings, but so far only twilight was able to capture my immersion… which is embarrassing to admit at my grown age. except, now this novel falls into that category. 

this was fucking amazing.

so many plot twists. so many scathing passages. 

i felt every emotion. anger. sadness. confusion happiness. concern. joy.

even though there are only six chapters, each leaves you with a bit more information. and with every new piece of information is a new plot twist. 

from the first chapter alone i was hooked. i was thoroughly confused at first, but as i kept going, i became more and more invested, until the first of many bombshells is dropped in chapter one. from there, minato keeps rolling the punches, as she adds more depth to an already exhilarating story. 

can i also just say i love me a good fucked up story. and not just fucked up for the sake of being fucked up. you can really tell minato knows when to lull the reader into a comfortable state and rip the rug out underneath from them. and i promise you the more you keep going the twists keep getting more and more outlandish - but in a good way.

i’ve heard people say that this book is grating at times because each chapter follows a similar retelling of events but from another characters point of view - from a killer, to the teacher who has lost her child, to a mother of a killer, to a student. i found this to be enthralling! seeing underneath the surface of every character’s motivation, inner thoughts, and explanations to why they acted like x a chapter ago, or why they said y 50 pages ago. it was delectable

i don’t think i can honestly put into words how addicting this book is. if this were a book with a massive fandom (i don’t know if it has one sue me) i could smell myself forming a hyper-fixation on this story because my god was it beautiful.

literally my ass only has One gripe…. and that’s

the HIV plot threw me off track a bit, as i know HIV very likely won’t be transmitted through drinking blood of someone with HIV, or even sharing a meal or using a bathroom with someone HIV+. like that part threw me off so much when characters kept talking about “oh no i have HIV”…. like i damn well know u dont

. but even then honestly i don’t care enough to let that ruin my perception. this book was too yummy to be hung up on such a “small” detail, when everything else was done to perfection.

i swear if u like thrillers & haven’t read this bump it up ur tbr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

callidoralblack's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

scarroll178's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book hit me like a train from the first chapter. I loved the writing choices, the character building, and the reflections on the larger society the book takes place in. 

It started to lose steam towards the end of the book; I liked the switching POV’s, but hearing the same story told over and over again by different characters slowed down the momentum of the book. I was also disappointed because the book starts off with such a creative writing choice — one character talking out loud for an entire chapter — and then follows up with a letter, a punchy response to the absolute chaos of the first chapter.. but then the rest is just.. a normal book. I was excited to see what other bold writing choices the author would make, but it seems like she just gave up, like maybe she was afraid of making the writing too experimental. I also thought it was interesting to see the domino effect of the teacher’s revenge, but I was disappointed to find that both boys evidently deserved what they got; I think a more nuanced conclusion would be at least one of the two boys truly regretting what he did, Maname’s death really being accidental, and/or the teacher regretting her revenge.

Still, great book; I just wish the author would’ve really committed to the bold creative choices she made at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Blood