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A cute dog and an akward kid, that teams up to solve a mystery
Entertainment - The story is about a boy, Hinata, who gets to foster a Shiba Inu that was trained to work for the police in search for clues. Both Hinata and the dog, Chris, have difficulties in life, while Hinata is described as being very bad at talking to people, Chris failed his first task because he got scared by an insect. The story was engainging enough that kept me going at a fast pace until the end.
Language Learning - The book holds value for language learners. It's a children's novel, with a couple of pictures here and there, much like a light novel aimed to a teenager audience. When I started reading this volume, I was around level 25-26 in WK (covered around 100% N5 Kanjis, 99.59% of N4 Kanjis, 87.58% of N3 Kanjis, 73.03% of N2 Kanjis and 37.77% N1 Kanjis) with roughly 2500 words learned and halfway N3 level in my grammar studies, the first 25% of the book felt a lot harder than I anticipated, which with time and exposure to the new vocabulary improved a lot and by the end I was reading comfortably with at most 3 -5 new words per/page needing to be searched. All words that utilize Kanjis have furigana attached to them which makes searching them in a dictionary a lot easier. The remark is that not all common words found in Kanji are represented here, so it's fairly common to find them written in kana only.
Overall - If you fill the profile I described above, I'd recommend the reading. It has vocabulary that can very much be used on daily basis and also vocabulary useful for those who want to read mystery/investigation type of books in the future.