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Second Sister
Second Sister: A Novel | Chan Ho-Kei
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Chan Ho-Keis The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirlSiu-Manhas committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister whos been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul playnothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N.a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat and mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.s neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Mans death and why, and to ask, in a world where online and offline dialogue has increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is.
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VRM1975
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Readtoescape
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A Great book. I love the story from the first page. The book is thick, very exciting to keep reading, unputdownable, until i didn't realize that the story was end.

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Another #netgalley backlog title and just, it was SO GOOD! It's a detective/revenge book that touches on some Very Heavy topics and is very blatantly political and critical of HK and capitalist society (and just ppl in gen), but it's SO engaging! I really enjoyed the characters we met, in fact, it had a bit of a Death Note vibe to it. Kind of upset about one thing but it really worked out well. Recommended! #outstandingoctober @Andrew65

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coffees suicide, suicide attempt, self harm, sexual assault and coercion, mentions of date rape scenario, cyber bullying, bullying, depression, mental health, manipulation, murder, attempt murder/revenge, underage sexual assault, pedophilia, victim blaming, misogyny and internal misogyny, and probably more, especially towards the end when things start to be revealed 2y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 2y
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Another highlight in my reading month ❤️
Trigger warning: if you need heroes in your books, or likeable characters - don't read. These characters are not meant to be liked! And that's part of this well-thought-out plot. Here you never know what you'll get. Amazing from page one until the end.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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