Last Winter We Parted
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Average rating2.5
A young writer is assigned a difficult task by his editor: he is to write an investigative biography of a death row inmate named Yudai Kiharazaka, a thirty-five-year-old photographer who has been convicted of the murders of two women. Kiharazaka's victims--or his "models"--had been burned alive while the photographer tried to capture the perfect picture of their essences. But trying to unearth the truth about Kiharazaka will force the writer to grapple with horrifying archival material and to interview dangerous, grotesque people--not least of all Kiharazaka himself.
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This could have been a really good book. It had a mystery, a possibly wrongly convicted man, a twisted romance, murder and insanity. But there wasn't much to the book. It was a very quick read and I think that's why I continued to read. Not because it was hard to put down, but because it was so short I figured I might as well finish it. I think I read it in a few hours.
The synopsis talks of this young writer and you would think that his character would keep the mystery going for you, but in truth I don't really know what that writer was doing. And then all of a sudden he solves the mystery. It's all rather abrupt.
I don't know. I really liked the idea behind the book, but I felt the execution fell flat.
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