Book Review #14 : A Thriller Book, The Dead Returns by Rikako Akiyoshi

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Published on Nov 07, 2021

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The Dead Returns by Rikako Akiyoshi

Hi Book lovers...

Today, I’m going to talking about the book that I currently read. In my previous post, I have post about the unboxing of this novel, and promise will reviewing that novel when I finished the book, so here we go! I have finished that book.

That book was crime fiction from Japanese Author, The Dead Returns by Akiyoshi Rikako and I just know that Akiyoshi Rikako-sensei is a woman. When I read Rikako’s biodata in the end of the books, it just written that the author was a special crime-thriller-detective author and was published some novels.

Straight up, when I purchased this book I have never expected about anything. At that time I just want to read a novel, and as long as it’s not romance novel, that I have always read, it’s okay. And when I see that this book in sale, I directly purchased these book. Stupidly, I even don’t read about the blurb, about the author, which what I thought that the author came from Korea. It was my stupidity. I just purchased just because the title, the cover, and the price, buing! This book finally end up in my home. And I’m like, oh this is a book from Japanese author, hahaha… But I really curious about the story.

Okay, I think the story why I suddenly read the thriller novel was enough, lets moving forward about the dead return’s story. I will read the blurb and retelling about the plot from my point of view. It’s really the retelling by my self with my language.

So let’s start it with the blurb!

The Dead Returns
Author: Akiyoshi Rikako
Paperback, 252 pages
Published August 1st 2015 by Penerbit Haru

Blurb:

One night, I was pushed off a cliff.
Luckily I survived.

However, when I opened my eyes and looked in the mirror,
I no longer see myself as mediocre.
My body changed to the figure of a handsome young man who was about to help me.

With my new body, I was determined to find my killer.

The suspect, a classmate.
A total of 35 people.
One of them is my killer.

The blurb doesn’t have a lot of words, but it’s enough to describe the common thread of this book. From the book we can know that this book written by point of view 1, it was me.

This book was teenlit genre, with as I said before, thriller.
As the genre, these book was fit for teenager. From the blurb and the title may be you have expectation that these book is horror genre, but let me tell you that this genre was teenlit fiction. Until I know the truth of the story, I pretty sure that It’s not horror but fiction.

This is story about a teenager grade 12, Koyama Nobuo, who’s at one night fell off from a cliff and died. Strangely, he suddenly wake up in another body, which’s at that night, the one who wants to save him. Unfortunately, the body Koyama Nobuo was died and Koyama Nobuo soul wake up in Takahashi Shinji’s body.

Nobuo on the Shinji’s body keep that secret to find out who pushed him off the cliff at that night. So he move from Shinji’s school and back to Nobuo school. He started to digging information about his classmate’s whereabouts at that night.

When put together the puzzle pieces one by one, he find out the fact that everyone around Nobuo was untrusted person. So that fact hurt him so much. When he give up and accept the destiny who’s happened to him, it’s being Takahashi Shinji, he’s found out the another secret about that night.

There’s not much I can say about this book cause it would be a spoiler. But I will say that The ending of this story is really unexpected. At first, I’m thinking about body and soul exchange. Can someone exchange souls with someone who is already dead? But yeah, it is a fiction book I thought so I continue the story then bam, I really can’t expect it!

This book is so interesting. I think I will read another story from Rikako author.

But there’s one thing that I don’t like from this book. It’s about how the author telling the story by point of view first person, me. This book can called as detective book, but it’s not pump the adrenaline like the detective stories cause it’s telling by pov first person. That because, first person guesses are very limited, so I can’t even guess what’s really going on at that night so it’s sound a little bit boring.

A Little About The Author

The picture above I got from Goodreads which's she has published many books unless The Dead Returns

This book’s come under thin book with 7 part. This story is very short I think, but just because the portion of the story was good enough, it’s forgiven.

I rate 4 star from 5 star because this is novel with uncommon story. If only this book have more pages and more story and not written by first person point of view, may be I will rate 5 star from 5 star. But I will say that the Died Returns was recommended book. I will read another story of Rikako Akiyoshi.

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Photos of The Dead Returns was taken by Samsung Galaxy A10

Vivie Hardika

_{I have so many imagination in my head. Something that I can't achieve as human and as a girl. So writing very challenging. Since in Junior High School, I written whatever I want to write. Without skill, I just write what I want to read. Now I have 10th published novels and all of that are romance.}

_{Yeah, I proudly say that I am an mulititalent author!}