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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
The university mystery club finds themselves targeted and forced to try and solve their own murders…
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji is a Japanese murder mystery set on an isolated island…with a group of students trapped and unable to escape their unknown killer…
The University Mystery Club enjoys reading and discussing detective fiction. It’s no surprise they take up an opportunity to vacation on Decagon Island…where the mysterious Blue Mansion Fire and the Decagon House Murders occurred…
Concurrently, a former member of the mystery club finds himself recieving letters from beyond the grave…written by a father seeking revenge for his daughter’s death.
I should mention that the father was one of the victims of the Decagon House Murders, and his daughter was a former mystery club member who died mysteriously while she was with the club…
So there in lies the problem…is a dead man targeting the club and were they involved with the death of his daughter?
It’s an odd mystery with not as much “fair play” as I’d like. I had a few issues with the final resolution, but it was still pretty good…
Probably the closest approximation to an Agatha Christie novel of the Japanese mysteries I’ve read so far…
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji is a Japanese murder mystery set on an isolated island…with a group of students trapped and unable to escape their unknown killer…
The University Mystery Club enjoys reading and discussing detective fiction. It’s no surprise they take up an opportunity to vacation on Decagon Island…where the mysterious Blue Mansion Fire and the Decagon House Murders occurred…
Concurrently, a former member of the mystery club finds himself recieving letters from beyond the grave…written by a father seeking revenge for his daughter’s death.
I should mention that the father was one of the victims of the Decagon House Murders, and his daughter was a former mystery club member who died mysteriously while she was with the club…
So there in lies the problem…is a dead man targeting the club and were they involved with the death of his daughter?
It’s an odd mystery with not as much “fair play” as I’d like. I had a few issues with the final resolution, but it was still pretty good…
Probably the closest approximation to an Agatha Christie novel of the Japanese mysteries I’ve read so far…
adventurous
emotional
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
ดูจากตอนจบแล้วคิดว่าน่าจะมีภาคต่อ แอบขัดใจนิดหน่อยที่ดูเป็นการพยายามทิ้งให้คนอ่านสงสัยแบบงงๆ และรวบรัดไปหน่อย แต่ถ้าพูดถึงส่วนอื่นๆ นอกจากตอนจบ ก็คิดว่าเป็นนิยายสืบสวนสอบสวนที่อ่านฆ่าเวลาเพลินดี ไม่ได้มีอะไรที่เกิดความคาดหมาย แต่ในขณะเดียวกันก็ไม่ได้ทำให้ผิดหวัง เรายังคงสนุกกับการวางปริศนาและการพยายามไขปริศนานี้อยู่ เพียงแต่ว่าคงไม่ได้มีอะไรจากหนังสือเล่มนี้ที่จะติดตัวเราไป และทำให้เราได้คิดนึกถึงมันอีก
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
A well written mystery story by someone who is clearly very passionate about the genre. It was fun discovering the secret of the Decagon House, it's origins and how everyone ended up there.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The translation left something to be desired but all in all this was an excellent homage to And Then There Were None but it also stood well on its own. I wouldn't call it a great read apart from its mystery aspect and I obviously didn't like the (expected) casual sexism, but it was definitely entertaining.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Needed more character development but I was not able to guess who the murderer was