By Kinofhera

Score:
9 / 10

A pretty disturbing revenge story involving the delicate relationship between the perpetrator, the victim, the perpetrator’s family, and the victim’s family.

Instead of school bullying, this novel talks about criminal offences. It also focuses on the problems of juvenile laws, which could easily be bent to protect the defendants instead of punishing them. Criminal laws don’t apply to kids and juvenile laws mostly “protect” them so they could get a second chance in life and society. But what if a kid did commit horrible crimes like arson, murder, or… terrorism? Just a year or two rehab? What would the victim’s family feel? What actually are punishments? Will they make the victim's family happier? Or will they make the criminal a better person?

Lots of questions raised in this novel.