Smaller and smaller circles is about a killer who kills because of a traumatic event happened when he was still still studying. The story shows gore, thank God the book didn't show pictures of how does the rotting body looks like in the first part of the story and how does the victims looks like after the killer scrapes off the face of the victim, removes the organs and genitals and dumps the victim in the payatas dumpsite. This is the reason why I stopped reading the book for a while because of the way the author descibed how the killer kills his victims. Well I can say that the author is succesful in describing each element of the story.
The weird thing about this story is that there are priests acting like investigators. They are Father saenz and Father Jerome. As discussed in our PHILIT class, the reason why the author used priests as investigators is to make the story "COOL". For me the story is not COOL AT ALL! Why?
First, in this story you can foresee what will happen next after a certain event happened.
Second, for me the story didn't show any sign of struggle and thrill as the Crime Priests and SOCOs try to solve the crime.
Third, it seems that the crime investigators and the priests in the story didn't have a hard time to determine who is the killer unlike other stories that they are having a conflict solving the conflict.
Fourth, the story seems like it is trying hard to be as thrilling as the other suspense novels.
Fifth, it is not normal it is normal in the filipino society to have a serial killer.
Lastly, priests solving a crime is not cool at all!
At first I thought that I will like this story because in the first part of the story the conflict of the story was succesfully defined and I as the reader was able to understand how big the problem is for the investigators unfortunately, as the story continues for me, it seems like the author starts to fail in making the readers feel the intensity of the story. The story is good but the way the author presented it for me is not effective.
The weird thing about this story is that there are priests acting like investigators. They are Father saenz and Father Jerome. As discussed in our PHILIT class, the reason why the author used priests as investigators is to make the story "COOL". For me the story is not COOL AT ALL! Why?
First, in this story you can foresee what will happen next after a certain event happened.
Second, for me the story didn't show any sign of struggle and thrill as the Crime Priests and SOCOs try to solve the crime.
Third, it seems that the crime investigators and the priests in the story didn't have a hard time to determine who is the killer unlike other stories that they are having a conflict solving the conflict.
Fourth, the story seems like it is trying hard to be as thrilling as the other suspense novels.
Fifth, it is not normal it is normal in the filipino society to have a serial killer.
Lastly, priests solving a crime is not cool at all!
At first I thought that I will like this story because in the first part of the story the conflict of the story was succesfully defined and I as the reader was able to understand how big the problem is for the investigators unfortunately, as the story continues for me, it seems like the author starts to fail in making the readers feel the intensity of the story. The story is good but the way the author presented it for me is not effective.
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