Soul Cage

This is a crime-procedural story that takes place in Japan and is the second book in a series, the first book being The Silent Dead. The main character is Lt. Reiko Himewaka who is an officer in a police department in Tokyo. It starts with the finding of a severed hand, at the beginning -because of......more

I enjoy Japanese crime fiction and I am not quite sure how Honda's first Himekawa book in translation in the US didn't get on my radar last year. But I jumped quickly in with the second. It was hard to tell if reading the previous book would have been helpful, there are a lot of characters to keep t......more

A book that didn't fully convince me. The thriller vein is good, in the sense that the idea behind the plot is good (a minivan, abandoned on the bank of a river with a hand inside) but everything else isn't quite up to par. The pace is very slow; the characters are sketches; the suspense typical of......more

Lettura che ho trovato faticosa e che mi ha fatto procedere con lentezza. Lo stile scarno, la mancanza di introspezione dei protagonisti e la poca contestualizzazione di luoghi e quotidianità mi hanno portato a pensare a un plot maggiormente indicato per un manga che per un romanzo. Per quanto mi rigu......more

I don't know if it's either the author's way and style of writing or the translation work of it, but I really love the narrative structure and how it was written-- straightforward, pacey, and even the raving part was not a problem to me. The case was more complicated and honestly I love it better th......more