Confession

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

Don't you just love psychological thrillers that put you in the perspective of someone going insane? Because I do. They're my favorite type of story.

The story starts with a couple of friends stranded on top of a mountain during a snowstorm after one of them gets injured. Believing he's going to die, he confeses to the murder of a mutual friend, but by pure luck they manage to find a cabin nearby to shelter the next two days while the rescue team arrives for them. The rest of the story focuses on the developing paranoia that arises and continues growing in both characters, as each of them worries if they are going to be killed by the other, or if the crime they just confesed to is going to end up coming to light. 

I think the build up of the tension is REALLY well done. The characters start thinking something might be wrong but keep making excuses for what's happening and going in circles again and again, trying to deny what they're experiencing. At the same time, they start making wild conjectures that make no sense except when assuming the worst case scenario. Every single move, noise, breath and face starts looking suspicious to the point that the reader starts getting paranoid too. And every single time you think the character is safe, another problem arises. The stakes keep going up again and again until the very end.

Aside from living inside the mind of the characters and experiencing their deteriorating though process the art starts getting less and less polished? While at the beggining it was your standard 90's manga art style by the end some of the faces look like they came out straight from a Junji Ito manga, which is a nice touch to make us feel the terror they are experiencing even though this is definitely not a horror manga.

This has definitely become one of my favorite reads of the year.