Thursday, October 31, 2013

Book Club Book Review: Arisa vol. #1


Book: Arisa volume #1 by Natsumi Ando (chapters 1 - 4)

Rating: 5 stars

Review:

Okay, this was really good. There is something strange happening at Arisa's school and her twin sister Tsubasa intends on finding what that is. This was so good, I thought the kids were like the children of the corn. Creepy and weird. This is a really interesting mystery series.

This volume is about twin sisters Tsubasa and Arisa who have been living separately for the past three year ever since their parents divorced. And when the sisters decide to finally meet up, Arisa suggest to Tsubasa that she go to school as her for a day. Tsubasa thinking her sister has the best life ever doesn't realize that there is something dark and dangerous happening at the school. That is until Arisa attempted to kill herself by jumping out of a window.

Determined to figure out what's really going on at the school, Tsubasa continues pretending to be Arisa. She needs to know who's trying to hurt her sister and what the heck is going on. But just like the first day, Tsubasa doesn't notice anything different about the students or the school. Well not at first however during 4th period the students in her class started to act really strange. They all took out their cell phones and started banging on the desk yelling out "King" over and over. She's then instructed to type in a wish to a special site that says it will select one wish to grant. The wish was to get rid of one of the teachers.

After the teacher didn't show up for school the next day, Tsubasa was starting to realize just how weird and creepy Arisa's classmates really are and that they may have had something to do with what's bothering her sister. To try to see if there are any lead to the teacher, Tsubasa and her friend Takeru decide to check out the teacher's home for any clues.

But before she can meet up with Takeru, she's stopped by another student who's asking her questions. The student seems to be scared, she had recently spoken out against the King and those who speak out against the King are punished. Just then some of the students appeared on the stairs taunting the other girl and as Tsubasa was trying to go after those students, she was attacked by someone. Turns out it was one of her classmates, which only brought up more questions.

There is a lot of interesting turns in this. I have to thank my Goodreads group because they have found me a really good book. I can't wait to read the second volume to see what's going to happen because Tsubasa's friend Takeru found out something when he went snooping at one of Tsubasa's classmate's house.

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