This volume we continue to follow Detective Katayama as he tries to solve a tangled web of murders happening one after another at his sister's workplace. Moreover, they seem to be related to an unsolved murder case from two years ago.
It is similarly fast-paced to the first volume in the series. The plot was entertaining, the characters less so - there were some inconsistencies and hardly any character development, although it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the story all that much. I thought the vocabulary was slightly easier this time, though that might be me getting used to the writer's style. Some idiomatic phrases get repeated a lot, so it's easy to internalize them.
I have to say, though, it is very apparent that the book was written in the 80s, not only due to the technology depicted, but also regarding society's opinion on (spoiler for one of the ending "twists") queerness. One of the characters turns out to be a lesbian, but she wishes to change and meet a man she could fall in love with.
This volume we continue to follow Detective Katayama as he tries to solve a tangled web of murders happening one after another at his sister's workplace. Moreover, they seem to be related to an unsolved murder case from two years ago.
It is similarly fast-paced to the first volume in the series. The plot was entertaining, the characters less so - there were some inconsistencies and hardly any character development, although it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the story all that much. I thought the vocabulary was slightly easier this time, though that might be me getting used to the writer's style. Some idiomatic phrases get repeated a lot, so it's easy to internalize them.
I have to say, though, it is very apparent that the book was written in the 80s, not only due to the technology depicted, but also regarding society's opinion on (spoiler for one of the ending "twists") queerness. One of the characters turns out to be a lesbian, but she wishes to change and meet a man she could fall in love with.