殺人鬼藤子的衝動

by Yukiko Mari, 真梨幸子, 劉姿君 (Translator)

我發誓要走上那條最幸福的道路，卻走進了一座由鮮血打造的無間地獄……

森澤藤子，一個遭到父母虐待、同學欺凌，在悲慘的日子裡苦苦掙扎的少女。
她始終以為自己的人生就只能在底層打滾，再無翻身的可能。
這樣的她在十一歲遭遇滅門血案，失去了雙親和妹妹。
在被阿姨收養之後，藤子終於開始走向幸福的人生。
為了留住幸福，藤子費盡所有心力。
然而，人生終究沒有她想像得那麼簡單，通往最終幸福的路上，有著太多必須一一掃除的障礙。
為了掃除這些障礙，她成了眾人口中的殺人鬼……

304 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Impulse of Fujiko the Homicidal Manic isn't as great as I'd expected. I fully enjoyed the sequel of this book: The Truth About Fujiko the Homicidal Manic: Interview in Cell so I thought the first book would be just as enjoyable. Somehow I was wrong.

We follow Fujiko, an abused girl who lived with her uncaring parents and an equally abused younger sister. Family life and school both brought her nothing but pain and humiliation, there seems to be no way out. Until one day Fujiko's parents and sister were murdered by an unknown person, and the orphaned Fujiko was taken in by her aunt (her mother's younger sister). Things are finally looking up for the girl, and Fujiko vowed never to repeat her mother's mistakes, e.g. bad choices in men, teenage pregnancy, abusive behaviors, obsession with beauty and plastic surgery, etc. Still as she became a teenagers, Fujiko found it wasn't easy to drive the shadows from her past away, and to make matters worse, she started the habit of using murder as a method to solve her problems/take out her anger.

What had gone wrong with Fujiko? Is she really a case of 'like mother, like daughter' or is her tragedy a fault of the society, so to speak?

I adore Yukiko Mari's writing skill and her courage to go into dark and comfortable places when she created her main characters and set up their situation. However, I found the MC, Fujiko is a very stupid woman (she doesn't have anyone to blame for many of her bad decisions) and it is no good reading a whole book filled with said stupid woman making so many bad decisions. Don't get me wrong, I can understand Fujiko's mindset, her murderous behaviors and I can understand how and why the main plot twist at the end of the book plays out: it turns out the kindly aunt who taken her in after her family were killed might very likely to have a hand in said murder as well. And said aunt have also manipulated Fujiko in order to gain benefit out of her life insurance

I have to admit the author had done a good job in foreshadowing the final outcome of the story, for a couple of times I paused and asked myself: "Something is wrong here, but what is it?" Still the final plot twist kind of takes me by surprise. And for this plot twist alone, I rise the rating from 3 stars to 3. 6 stars.

PS: reading this book does help me to understand some of the events which taken place in the sequel.

PSS: be warned that there is at least one scene of dismemberment being described IN DETAILS in the book and it's truly disturbing. Although.....to think about it more carefully...grown men and women are being dismembered and then disposed like garbage but NO ONE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

My review for the sequel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jsincity · Rating 4 out of 5]

「彷彿人格：
一個人雖然股有高度的適應力，能夠視不同的場合的不同氣氛作出相應的舉止，卻完全沒有自我，因此必須不斷扮演某一種人格。別人對他的評價高的時候很穩定，評價差的時候立刻會感到不安，手足無措，慌慌張張地尋找新的面具。而她便是在這個過程中「殺了人」
藤子就是如此，在尖叫與戴面具中不斷往返」

這是一部仿若《藍，或另一種藍》的那種永劫回歸式的悲劇，儘管在看的過程中一直有種仿若在看《藤子藤子向前衝》的那種活力。。。。甚至喜感

像是《討厭人松子的一生》一樣的那種衝突性的喜感

但在那些校園霸凌，彷彿人格，家庭虐待，永劫回歸的情節描寫下種就是很很悲傷的。

我們何其有幸，能這樣大聲嚷嚷自己的邊緣當成一種自嘲，而不是真真正正陷在那種無可自拔的宿命裡

說是致鬱型小說，我倒還不那麽認為，畢竟衝突的喜感實在強，但那悲傷是真真確確存在的。

至於反轉～～～算了吧，我又不是來看反轉的～

[Joseph Chung · Rating 4 out of 5]

最後三頁是全書精華所在，那種顛覆真的很過癮。不過全書實在太暗黑變態，殘酷得令人受不了。所以整體成績給打了折扣。

[Vanessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

『アルテーミスの采配』

アルテーミスの采配がなかったので代わりにここに感想を残します。

真梨幸子さんの作品は今回初めて読みました。
AV女優連続殺人事件と女の復讐。湊かなえさんと並んでイヤミスの女王と呼ばれているだけあって、似ているテイストでした。最初は何のつながりもないことが点と点を繋ぐように繋がっていく部分が特にそうかなと。

[Emi · Rating 3 out of 5]

哀れ。。。救いがない。
他の人のレビュー見てたら結構最後/あとがきに衝撃を受けたというのを目にしたんだけど、みんなどこらへんに衝撃を受けたのか分からなかった。

[Fernanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didnt like the end.....

[Bunnie]

代表作也没有明显好于她的其他作品。

[Ahi · Rating 5 out of 5]

先が気になって一気に聞きました。
そして最後のあとがきでストーリーが完結するという。最後の最後まで楽しめた。