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(4.79/5)Made my detective novel loving heart explode
Content disclaimers: references to torture (not explicit)
Basic plot: A traditional whodunnit in reverse. Rather than starting out with a mysterious murder and assembling the clues to find the culprit, we start off knowing the culprit and watch the surrounding characters try to work out how it happened. Or so we start. This story is delightfully full of twists and turns, and even the ones I managed to guess I was overjoyed at how they were revealed.
Vocabulary: Quite a few medical words, wor
I wavered between 4 and 5 stars, it's on that line, but I think I'm too impressed by how many details this weaves together in all of its tricks to not reach for the 5. The book is an intricately planned mystery, solvable but convoluted enough to make that difficult, which ended with a satisfying mix of things I intuited and things I couldn't begin to guess. Fun read, flows well, almost gives me the same sort of bombastic mystery vibes I get from some videogames/VNs that I love.
The downsides ma
This is a hugely entertaining (meta-)mystery for mystery lovers. Twists and mystery trivia abound. The book is full of all the classic mystery cliches, but in a good way: it's conscious of the fact, and does so very deliberately. Many of the characters are mystery buffs themselves, and keep discussing authors, books, locked room tricks and great detectives, even as they themselves are in the middle of a murder mystery.
I half-guessed two of the major twists, but this didn't diminish my enjoym
Very entertaining!
An excellent book for anyone who likes unexpected twists!
It even asks you to solve the mystery yourself at one point and it's theoretically doable
I will never forget the term 密室殺人
Also! There is an audiobook! I listened to it when it was 聴き放題 on オーディブック and I absolutely loved it