砂糖菓子の弾丸は撃ち抜けない

タイトルに惹かれ、読んでみる。
I have read this novel because I was attracted its title.

第1章が始まる前に新聞記事の引用がある。
It starts an article quoted from a news paper before first chapter.

中学生女子の遺体がバラバラの状態で発見される。
A dead body of junior high school student is discovered in the mountain.

この本、ミステリーなの？
I wonder this novel is a kind of mystery.

物語は海野藻屑という女子が、語り手でもある主人公のいる学校に転校してくる所から始まる。
This novel starts scene that a girl, whose name was Mokuzu Umino, moves to a school which a heroine of this novel goes to. Actually, Mokuzu Umino means seaweed in Japanese.

藻屑は父親から虐待を受けているという噂の持ち主で、スカートの中にはいくつもの痣がある。
Everyone was talking about Mokuzu who suffered from violence by her father. Actually, she had many bruises on her legs hidden by her skirt of school uniform.

周囲の気を引きたいがために、変人キャラを演じる藻屑は、浮いた存在になる。
Mokuzu played a crazy personality for getting attention from her class mates. As a result, she was isolated in the class.

しかし、主人公とは唯一仲良くなる。
However, she made a friend with the heroine.

母子家庭で引きこもりの兄をもつ主人公と変人藻屑との不思議な関係を描いた話。
This novel is composed a strange relationship between crazy Mokuzu and the heroine who lives in a fatherless family.

読後感は読み手によって異なると思うが、最悪。
I felt the worst after reading, but it depends on each interpretation.

著者は一体何を伝えたいのか？
I cannot understand what the author wants to tell.

義務教育中の中学生へ自立を促しているのか？
Is it independence from their parents in the term of compulsory education?

オススメはしない。ハッピーエンドの小説を読み飽きた方はどうぞ。
I don't recommend to read but someone who is bored with happy endings.