S (Ring #5)

Twenty-one years after the legendary bestseller Ring, which spawned blockbuster films on both sides of the Pacific, and thirteen years after Birthday, the seeming last word on iconic villain Sadako & her containment, internationally acclaimed master of horror & Shirley Jackson Award-winner Koji Suzuki makes his much awaited returned to the famed trilogy's mind-blowing story world with a new novel, S.   

Takanori Ando, son of Spiral protagonist Mitsuo, works at a small CGI production company & hopes to become a filmmaker one day despite coming from a family of doctors, When he's tasked by his boss to examine a putatively live-streamed video of a suicide that's been floating around the internet, the aspiring director takes on more than he bargained for. His lover Akane, an orphan who grew up at a foster-care facility & is now a rookie high-school teacher, ends up watching the clip. She is pregnant, & she is...triggered.                        
Sinking hooks into our unconscious from its very first pages with its creepy imagery, & rewarding curious fans of the series with clever self-references, here is a fitting sequel to a tale renowned for its ongoing mutations.