巴里マカロンの謎

Excellent for a leisurely read, but could have been even better

Having read Yonezawa's previous titles, I loved 巴里マカロンの謎 the most in his 小市民 series. This book introduces a new character that Osanai-san and Kobato-kun learn more about throughout four mysteries in the book. This book uses easy-to-understand Japanese and is ideal for anyone at the N3 level. There is a lot of dialogue in this book, and the delivery of the mysteries unraveling could have been better, as the other reviewer mentioned. Otherwise, a pretty heartwarming story that doesn't require read

This was a cute collection of short mysteries, where the theme is a dessert element (Paris Macaron, New York Cheesecake, etc.). The main character Kobato-kun is a regular high school student, joined by his classmate, sweets-loving Osanai-san, and together they solve mysteries. This is part of Yonezawa's Shoushimin (petite bourgeoisie?) series. I didn't realize that going into it, though you don't need to read the other books in the series to pick up this one.

The writing is simple and easy to f