I only read the first 3 chapters, and decided to drop it for now. The narrator is very self-oriented and a little annoying at times, and the other characters don't seem to have any depth to them. The mysteries were also underwhelming, being both contrived and not very complex.
That said, the style lends itself to speed-reading kind of like drugstore paperbacks I'm familiar with here in America, with fun wordplay and sarcasm mixed in. If I bought this book on a whim in an airport bookstore to read on a flight, I'd probably be satisfied with it. I might even pick it up in the future sometime when I'm in the mood for a slightly pulpy high school mystery.
Not a masterpiece
I only read the first 3 chapters, and decided to drop it for now. The narrator is very self-oriented and a little annoying at times, and the other characters don't seem to have any depth to them. The mysteries were also underwhelming, being both contrived and not very complex.
That said, the style lends itself to speed-reading kind of like drugstore paperbacks I'm familiar with here in America, with fun wordplay and sarcasm mixed in. If I bought this book on a whim in an airport bookstore to read on a flight, I'd probably be satisfied with it. I might even pick it up in the future sometime when I'm in the mood for a slightly pulpy high school mystery.