Its been a pretty long time since I've read anything by Koji Suzuki since reading his original Ring trilogy and the short story collection "Dark Water". And now I'm back to his work with the novel "S".
Takanori Ando works for a small company specializing in CGI production, and who, despite coming from a family of doctors, hopes one day to be a film maker. He is asked by his boss to check out a live-streamed video of a suicide that has been floating around on the internet. But he is taking on something that is more than what he bargained for.
Akane, Takanori's pregnant lover who had grown up as an orphan in a foster home and is now a rookie teacher, ends up seeing the clip. And it has triggered something inside her.
"S" is one of two books where Suzuki returns to the world of Ring. The other is a collection of novellas called "Birthday", that of course I still have to read. And of course it's set years after the events of the second book, so there's that!
As a stand alone novel (since that's what it is even though it's set in the same universe) I really liked this one quite a bit. It's pretty creepy, very much like the original trilogy, and there's even self-references to those original books too!
It feels really great to be reading his books again! In fact, I still have another novel of his that still needs to be read as of right now. Still need to get "Birthday" also and see if that's any good.
by i-the-muso-1968