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A lot of my thoughts are very similar to what cat's already written about this. If you want a little thriller about murder, stalking, and some warped sexuality filtered through modern era technology, this delivers, trash and all. That's the neutral kind of trash -- this is and knows it is a trashy thriller, and that's totally fine.
Most of my qualms relate to details of the writing, not what it's trying to do as a whole. There are certainly too many explanations that stop to explain viruses, common cybersecurity mistakes, the concept of Facebook, and on and on. It also just felt a little light in personality, coasting on its overall ideas with characters that are just functional but a little predictable and not easy to get attached to. You get pretty on the nose concrete answers as to why someone turns to crime and it definitely feels oversimplified, rushed on the characterization side. The ending helps with its big developments -- some I called, others I didn't but maybe should have. Things are a little thin leading up to there though, because it's spending almost the whole book holding its hand, waiting to throw all that out at once.
I'd like it if Japanese art had a more healthy skepticism for police, but that is what it is as a cultural thing, and it didn't actually dive into "if only people's rights weren't getting in the way of a good investigation!" the way it threatened to. There's a very bizarre sentence or two that I think is meant to be about people misrepresenting themselves online, but comes across as sudden random transphobia, but... yeah, cultural differences eh.
The writing is easy and straightforward here; not particularly descriptive or flowery, and with loads of useful repetition. The only real downside as an early book is that it's a lot lengthier than the 3 I've read before this. Probably not truly long, but at an earlier learner slow reading speed, you might feel it. Took me a long time to get through, but books have always sat as side projects to my VN reading so that's more my fault.
Plus, I was slowed down by using the audiobook! I did read this, but my listening is rough so I did an audiobook pass both before and after reading a chapter. I felt big gains through this one book, and the audiobook is nice and clear, so I highly recommend the technique if you're like me: starting to get comfortable in reading but still with questionable listening.