Penance

Résumé / Summary : 

When a group of young girls are approached by a stranger, they cannot know that the encounter will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Hours later, Emily is dead. The surviving girls alone can identify the killer. But not one of them remembers his face...
Driven mad by grief, the victim's mother demands the girls find the murderer or else atone for their crimes. If they do neither, she will have her revenge. She will make them pay...
From the critically acclaimed author of Confessions, Penance is a dark and disturbing tale of revenge that will leave you reeling.

Mon avis / My review :

I wanted to discover a book written by Kanae Minato for a long time but I was disappointed by Penance.

Je voulais découvrir un roman de Kanae Minato depuis un moment mais je ressors déçue par cette lecture.

In fact, I think the scenario is completely unrealistic. This is the story of a few teenagers’ girls and one is murdered. The life of the others will never be the same. That is really normal but what makes this totally absurd is that all of them will commit murder!

En fait, j’ai trouvé le scenario vraiment peu réaliste. C’est l’histoire de plusieurs adolescentes et une d’elle va être assassinée. La vie des autres ne sera plus jamais la même. Jusque-là, rien d’anormal mais ce qui rend le roman absurde c’est que chacune d’elle va commettre un meurtre en étant adulte !

Each chapter tells the story of those teenagers and we discover broken women. This books is really dark and we have sometimes the feeling of being a voyeur.

Chaque chapitre nous raconte l’histoire de ces jeunes filles et nous découvrons des jeunes femmes brisés. C’est un roman très noir et qui nous laisse une impression de voyeurisme.

The style of the writing is sometimes a bit confusing and the sentences really long. For a first try it’s not really good but I will try to read another book to have a better idea of her work.

Le style de l’auteur est un peu confus et les phrases très longues. Pour un premier essai, je suis peu convaincue mais je retenterai une autre lecture de l’auteur pour me faire une meilleure idée.

 

Lu dans le cadre du challenge :

- read in english