Saturday 2 April 2016

The Suffering

The Suffering (The Girl from the Well, #2)

Rin Chupeco's The Suffering is the follow-up book to her The Girl from the Well.

Seventeen-year- old Tark knows what it is to be powerless.  But Okiku changes that.  A restless spirit who ended life as a victim and started death as an avenger, she's groomed Tark to destroy the wicked.  But when darkness pulls them deep into Aokigahara, known as Japan's suicide forest, Okiku's justice becomes blurred, and Tark is the one who will pay the price...

The Breakdown:
1. This book is a great example on how the second book can surpass the first book.  In this book, I feel that Chupeco does a much better job in her character development and the development of the relationship between the characters. She is able to do that and still hold on the horror and suspense that made the first book good.

2. Chupeco starts this book out with an intensely scary scene, with Tark exercising a ghost and Okiku coming to his aid.  She keeps this up throughout the book.  From Tark and Okiku stalking murderers to the trip the Aokigahara, which has to be once of the most intensely chilly settings of any book I have read.

3. I find the dynamic between Tark and Okiku interesting.  The way they have booth come to rely on each other.  They even have fights like friends have.  It does not matter that they are a living boy and dead girl, each is intensely protective of the other.

4. I am fascinated by the village that Chupeco develops in Aokigahara. What happened there and why kept me turning the pages, despite the frightening things that happened. I also love how Chupeco delves into Japanese culture on spirits and demons.

To Read or Not to Read:
Read- especially if you are fan of Japanese Horror films

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