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Chargement... Bad kidspar Zijin Chen
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 4.5/5 Adults think that children are simple and that their lies are easily uncovered. They have no idea how wicked some kids can be. This is the second book I read by this author. And Just like the first book, I liked this one too. It was amazing, especially the last 100 pages. I liked the open ending. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
THE PERFECT CRIME DOESN'T EXIST One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a remote mountain. It's the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. For Zhang did not expect that teenager Chaoyang and his friends would catch him in the act. An opportunity for blackmail presents itself and the kids start down a dark path that will lead to the unravelling of all their lives. Dark, heart-stopping, and violent, Bad Kids is the suspense thriller that has taken China by storm, proving that anyone has what it takes to become a killer. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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However, there are witnesses: three children who accidentally catch the whole thing on video. Thirteen-year-old Chaoyang and his new friends, two runaway orphans named Ding Hao and Pupu, initially think they should turn the footage in to the police. However, if they do that then Ding Hao and Pupu will be forced to go back to the orphanage where they were mistreated and nine-year-old Pupu was sexually abused. Chaoyang had briefly been letting the two orphans stay at his house while his mother was away at work, but the situation can't continue, so the kids hatch a plan to blackmail Zhang Dongsheng, who they believe must be rich because of the kind of car he drives (his wife and in-laws were rich, not him). They'll use the money they get from him to pay for food and a place to stay.
As the situation becomes more complicated, both Zhang Dongsheng and the kids have things to hide.
The cover calls this "an edge-of-your-seat bestselling Chinese suspense thriller," so I was expecting an exciting read. Instead, the bulk of it dragged. The main characters' problems kept piling up (the final body count surprised me), but it somehow never felt tense and suspenseful. The writing/translation was spare and not particularly impressive, and the characters never felt real. Chaoyang's situation was very melodramatic - although his father was well-off, he and his mother lived in poverty because his father had divorced his mother and remarried someone who wanted to pretend her husband's earlier family never existed. Chaoyang learned that his half-sister didn't even know she had an older brother, and Chaoyang's father's new wife tended to come across like a shrieking villain from a soap opera. Her method of getting revenge against Chaoyang and his mother at one point involved hiring someone to toss a bucket of human waste at them.
The "twist" ending transformed this from a mediocre read into a bad one and actively angered me. I was left with something that was neither believable nor at all satisfying.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )