冷たい校舎の時は止まる

冷たい校舎の時は止まる (2 Volumes) #2

by Mizuki Tsujimura, 辻村深月

学園祭のあの日、死んでしまった同級生の名前を教えてください――。「俺たちはそんなに薄情だっただろうか？」なぜ「ホスト」は私たちを閉じ込めたのか。担任教師・榊はどこへ行ったのか。白い雪が降り積もる校舎にチャイムが鳴ったその時、止まったはずの時計が動き出した。薄れていった記憶、その理由は。

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy

584 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2007

About the author

Associated Names:
* Mizuki Tsujimura
* 辻村深月 (Japanese)

Tsujimura is an award-winning novelist, she is best known for her mystery and children novels. She studied at Chiba University and won the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key), and in 2018 she won the Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Kagami no Kojo (Lonely Castle in the Mirror).

Japanese name 辻村 深月

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's so damn disappointing!! By the end of this book I just don't care about the characters, their internal conflicts and their guilt issues anymore! 1.5 stars.

[空 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thank god I am finally done. Started 冷たい校舎の時は止まる on the strength of her other book, おおかみの孤城. But unfortunately for this book, I was more bored than anything.

● It took approximately 3 million years to ‘reveal’ who among them was ‘dead’, only for the book to twist around and say, ‘Psych! Not really!’

● The characters were okay. For some reason I had more difficulty feeling for them than my tiny children in おおかみ. Like, I wasn’t interested in finding out more about them, their dreams, hopes, desires, fears, and sufferings. I was like, ‘yeah okay that’s cool. Next!’

● There were some moving moments, times when I was like, ‘I can relate to that. That’s fucking tough.’ But there were more moments where I was like, ‘Please let’s get this over with, I have other books to read.’

In conclusion: I don’t regret reading it, but I am never going to want to read this again, unlike おおかみ, which I conceivably would want to reread sometime in the future.

[Asuka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poignant is the best word I can use to describe this book. The answer to the mystery was unexpired but I loved how separate stories all fell into a place. The story of Sugawara gave me the similar feel to that of Henry Winters (Secret History) which is a huge deal. Highly recommended.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely not my favorite of Tsujimura Mizuki's but it was definitely interesting! I still don't know which volume I prefer 🤔

[Erika · Rating 1 out of 5]

It didn’t need to be THIS long.
The more I read about the characters the less I cared about them.
And the fact that the needy “メンヘラ” girl has the same name as the author was just weird. And not in a good way.

I can see the similarities between this book and this author’s famous book “the lonely castle in the mirror”. The excruciatingly detailed and slow first half, and a mild plot twist at the end.
I’m glad the author learned how to edit her story.