What would you do if one day you were trapped on campus and couldn't find a way out, if you saw your friend commit suicide by jumping off a building, or if your friends around you disappeared one by one in front of you?

Eight friends who had witnessed their best friend commit suicide by jumping off a building returned to school on a snowy day, returning to the campus they had not seen for a long time. But for some reason the campus was empty. And the most frightening thing is that time has stopped, all the doors and windows cannot be opened, and they are all trapped inside. But no one could remember the name or appearance of the friend who committed suicide. After a series of strange events, they discovered that every time at the strange moment of 17:53, time would stop, and then one of them would disappear. As people around them disappear one after another, they discover that "he" may be beside them...

The story unfolds little by little, and the friends trapped on campus all have their own The unknown side, when the deepest secrets in their hearts are revealed bit by bit, misfortune also follows...

This novel incorporates many different elements and is a A work whose genre is difficult to define. Although it is a youth novel set on campus, it perfectly combines elements of fantasy, horror, suspense and reasoning, giving people an enjoyable reading experience.

The interesting thing is that the author gave his name to the protagonist and also laid a great foreshadowing behind the story, which will make people think more and more after reading it. The ending of the story is both clear and healing, which is very different from domestic youth novels, but it also enhances the positivity that a youth novel should have.

But in fact, when talking about Japanese suspense mystery novels, many people will probably think of Keigo Higashino, who is known as the king of mystery novels. Under the brilliance of his best-selling books, it seems that other writers have been eclipsed, but I don't think that is the case. Tsujimura Fukasuki is one of the outstanding female writers. Maybe her logical reasoning is not as thorough as Keigo Higashino's, but as a woman, her emotional ability is so strong that it is easier to touch people's hearts. In her writing, the characters created are very vivid. By giving each character a story that belongs only to them, she not only illustrates their personality, but also sets the stage for the unfolding of the plot.

At the same time, various themes that are reminiscent of each other are also expressed in the story narratives of each protagonist in the novel. In the development of the plot, the author not only pays attention to elements such as human nature, warmth, family problems, and campus cold violence, but also adds reasoning as the core, those carefully designed hidden lines, reversals, and identity narratives like "Inception" to form a complete It provides a wonderful reading experience and high readability.

This is a novel that I like very much. It has greatly changed my view on Japanese best-selling literature. I hope you will also like this thriller and suspense mystery novel about youth campus healing, "The Campus Where Time Stopped".