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roq's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
shelving's review against another edition
3.0
i skipped taking organisational sociology in year 2 for a reason.
rubyvee's review
challenging
dark
informative
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
oddreads_nicolestins's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
One of the best crime thrillers I've read yet! If you are into watching k-dramas or other foreign series or movies about solving crimes, then this one is for you!
Yokoyama writes beautifully about loss and grief. I also really enjoyed the way he wrote about past events to frame the present events- sometimes that can be confusing when writers go back and forth.
I loved being with these characters so much. The pages will fly by and you will get invested in the mystery.
ltmurr's review
4.0
I really enjoyed the cultural insights in a crime fiction story. The characters were a little hard to keep track of, especially with the bureaucratic titles and relationships, but I still really liked it.
michichigo's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.75
veronian's review
2.0
A plot twist late in the book briefly elevates this to 2.5 stars, but unfortunately none of it really gets me that interested in what is going on.
yannickroll26's review
challenging
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
literary_han's review against another edition
2.0
Pointlessly convoluted.
I really disliked this book
I really disliked this book
heathcliffdt's review
3.0
“It takes a heretic to catch a heretic.”
Firstly, this book is so demanding, so tiring, so dragging, and so long. Struggled so much to read through all the pages since the book volleyed me from one character to another. I’ve never been the biggest fan of crime novels, but Six Four is far more complicated to just be branded as such. If anything, Six Four is an intricate work, with layers stacked on top of one another. Its multi-layered feature made it such a challenging read to pay attention to the tiny details: from the recurring small accounts that would later on be revealed to have set up the pace of a big twist.
When I said Six Four is not just a crime book, it is because it is also a handbook for those in the police force in Japan. The element is simply important: it was hard to cross through the cultural difference, as evident in the book’s relationship between the police force and the media. The presence of internal politics between the book’s prefecture’s police force manifested more than the presence of the crime itself.
Three stars rounded half up for the apparent effort of Hideo Yokoyama neatly crafting up this piece, from the presence of the elements of the crime to the very meticulous details of the plot structure itself.
Firstly, this book is so demanding, so tiring, so dragging, and so long. Struggled so much to read through all the pages since the book volleyed me from one character to another. I’ve never been the biggest fan of crime novels, but Six Four is far more complicated to just be branded as such. If anything, Six Four is an intricate work, with layers stacked on top of one another. Its multi-layered feature made it such a challenging read to pay attention to the tiny details: from the recurring small accounts that would later on be revealed to have set up the pace of a big twist.
When I said Six Four is not just a crime book, it is because it is also a handbook for those in the police force in Japan. The element is simply important: it was hard to cross through the cultural difference, as evident in the book’s relationship between the police force and the media. The presence of internal politics between the book’s prefecture’s police force manifested more than the presence of the crime itself.
Three stars rounded half up for the apparent effort of Hideo Yokoyama neatly crafting up this piece, from the presence of the elements of the crime to the very meticulous details of the plot structure itself.