4 Stars
My first reading of this author was LAST RITUALS, and immediately I was devoted. I've also was over the top with MY SOUL TO TAKE and I REMEMBER YOU. This one? Not so much; although the first chapter, read immediately before bedtime, kept me awake all night.
THE ABSOLUTION balances a lot of violence with deeply delineated characterization and a psychological-sociological approach to one of today's pressing societal issues: Bullying--and specifically how Social Media acts as a flamethrower on the victims of Bullying--inescapable, horrific, boxing them in, sometimes with the consequence of suicide.
Multiple characters here conceal multiple secrets, and the backstories and the current consequences are often horrific, dangerous--and even fatal.
[Note: The flamethrower and "boxing in" analogies are solely my interpretation, and are not paraphrasing of the author. ]
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