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光の雨—原罪—
大阪地検に異動した検事・野々宮は大学の先輩・伊能と七年ぶりに再会した。亡き友に縛られ自らを苛み続ける伊能を救おうと手を伸ばす野々宮。やがて伊能は心を許し、穏やかな時間がふたりの間に流れ始める。一方、ありふれた保険金詐欺事件の裏に蠢く影を感じた野々宮は、刑事の協力を得てある人物と接触するが!?
「いのせんと・わーるど」待望の新装版！
「いのせんと・わーるど」待望の新装版！
367 pages, Paperback
First published May 5, 2000
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August 11, 2019
This book is terrific. I don't know if it's accurate to categorize the book as a romance because a large part of it concerns with the work of public prosecutors and criminal investigation. Tbh I'm not that super into crime stories, but I still really appreciate this rather dry part of the book as it sheds light on how public prosecutors operate within the Japanese legal system, how they interact with the police force and how this relationship differs from region to region, the codes that prosecutors have to abide and so on. It's informative for me since I'm not that familiar with the legal system in Japan, and setting personal preference aside I think it's also thanks to this part that the book can have a balanced structure.
Onto the romance part, it's absolutely to my taste. It's a story about overcoming the death of a loved one and forming a healthy relationship to support each other in life. There's something really special about the way the author portrays the characters' thoughts and feelings in this book. It's so hard to find words to describe but all the characters feel like living human beings, every action very thought every emotion feels natural and relatable, and very "them". Reading the book is like having a conversation and getting to know all these people, including the deceased person, who is not there physically from the start, yet is always there in the form of memories, connecting the two main characters. That's great story-telling for you!
There're so many memorable lines and scenes, but one of my most favorite is probably the part when the MC was thinking he wanted to understand the uke and to free him from agony, and so the MC said to the suicidal uke: "whenever you feel like everything in front of you turn pitch black, reach out to me immediately, I'll be right there for you."
Onto the romance part, it's absolutely to my taste. It's a story about overcoming the death of a loved one and forming a healthy relationship to support each other in life. There's something really special about the way the author portrays the characters' thoughts and feelings in this book. It's so hard to find words to describe but all the characters feel like living human beings, every action very thought every emotion feels natural and relatable, and very "them". Reading the book is like having a conversation and getting to know all these people, including the deceased person, who is not there physically from the start, yet is always there in the form of memories, connecting the two main characters. That's great story-telling for you!
There're so many memorable lines and scenes, but one of my most favorite is probably the part when the MC was thinking he wanted to understand the uke and to free him from agony, and so the MC said to the suicidal uke: "whenever you feel like everything in front of you turn pitch black, reach out to me immediately, I'll be right there for you."
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