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A really good murder mystery. As always it’s more focused on motive than the actual whodunnit. Which I really liked.

There was a really nice unravelling element to the story, like a snowball getting bigger and bigger until it reached the bottom of the mountain. Ayane is a really interesting character, and I liked her a lot. I also liked how Kusanagi was affected heavily by her and how that impeded his judgement but also aided the investigation.

Detective Galileo is, as always, a joy to read. A fascinating character that I have never disliked once.

While it’s not groundbreaking, it is a solid novel. Well written, well translated, well paced, and well plotted.

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Another one from Keigo, and with this book, he has sealed and climbed to that top 5 Author spot in my heart. This book was just

SO . BLOODY . BRILLIANT

Keigo has a way to capture your heart from the very first chapter of the story. He'll throw in a line to hook us up, gives us the killer and then, brings us to solve the technicalities of the murder. For this one, he had brought us to a murder that is just so perfectly planned and so well curated, it just seemed so.... impossible to achieve, and yet it happened anyways, and it worked.

In this book, we follow a curious case of a man who was found dead, poisoned in his own home. As usual, we also get the different perspectives of and point of views in this book, and whilst I had managed to guess some (where my theory was correct), but to actually execute the murder? I was totally minbdlowned.

This book really showed how Keigo utilized his knowledge in Engineering. Gosh, the way I geeked out with Yukawa with his experiments to prove his theory, I just.. Agh. I had a lot of fun reading this and you'll still get that emotional depth with Keigo's characters. We were also introduced with a new character in here, and I LOVE HER SO MUCH. Her interactions with Yukawa is just so freaking cute :') Its so geeky but I'm all for those smart brains anyway :') Smart is the new sexy they say.

I also like in this book on how Keigo describes women and how scary a woman can be :') The misogynistic side of men in here is disgusting (well except for Yukawa and Kusanagi), but I like how Keigo highlighted the role of the women characters in this book which has me smiling creepily.

“It’s not a calculation. It’s a smart woman’s instinct for self defense.”

Just another starling work from Keigo. Honestly, I can't get enough of his works, they're just freaking amazing. Loved every single page of the book. The technicalities, the depth and also the mystery itself. It was such a wonderful journey reading this book, and I sincerely, HIGHLY, recommend this book to EVERYONE.

4.5🌟

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mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Rather than a whodunnit like mysteries usually tend to be, this was a how-dunnit (which, I think, is a theme with all Higashino books). We know who the killer is right at the beginning of the book, and we even know why the murder happened. What we don’t know is how.

Clues are revealed in bits and pieces and it’s almost frustrating how nothing really adds up until Yukawa (detective Galileo, the brilliant physicist friend of the policeman Kusanagi) reveals all in the end. There was definitely an “aha!” moment when all was revealed. It didn’t give me goosebumps like the big reveal in Devotion of Suspect X did, but it was enough to leave me flummoxed.

Everything about this book, from the adorably distant infatuation of detective Kusanagi, to the dogged pursual of the truth by junior detective Utsumi was brilliantly executed.

I highly recommend it to thriller buffs.

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