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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
3,5 ⭐️
Espektasiku ketinggian karena ngeliat banyak yg rekom novel ini. Sebenarnya seru tapi yaaaa rada susah ngikutinnya, ribet sama tokohnya yg suka ketukar-tukar. Kalo baca ini harus dgn kondisi yg teliti bgt, bukan novel ringan yang bisa dibaca dalam keadaan kurang fokus, bisa-bisa bingung sendiri.
“ini si anu siapa sih? Anaknya si itu bukan? Oalah bukan… terus siapa juga?” Akhirnya buka lagi halaman awal, liatin lagi nama tokohnya berkali-kali
Espektasiku ketinggian karena ngeliat banyak yg rekom novel ini. Sebenarnya seru tapi yaaaa rada susah ngikutinnya, ribet sama tokohnya yg suka ketukar-tukar. Kalo baca ini harus dgn kondisi yg teliti bgt, bukan novel ringan yang bisa dibaca dalam keadaan kurang fokus, bisa-bisa bingung sendiri.
“ini si anu siapa sih? Anaknya si itu bukan? Oalah bukan… terus siapa juga?” Akhirnya buka lagi halaman awal, liatin lagi nama tokohnya berkali-kali
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Bold choice to open the book with the driest and most impenetrable manifesto, but go I guess?
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A deranged artist plans to slaughter his children, dismember their bodies, and resemble them to create the supreme being Azuth. Before he can do this, he is murdered in a locked room ... but his children are killed anyway. Now, 40 years later, private detective (maybe?) Kiyoshi Mitarai is on the case.
Man, what a great premise. The locked room murder is a dud (I challenge anyone to attempt to replicate the method the book gives for locking a door from the outside; it simply wouldn't work), but the main focus of the novel is the Azuth murders, and the solution to that works better (and is much more straightforward than the book description wants you to believe; I identified the murderer before it was revealed, which I very rarely can do).
The detective is ... functional. One of dozens of generically "eccentric" private detectives that populate the genre. I do wish the victims of the Azuth murders had been characterized literally at all. It's all very well for the Afterwards to claim that honkaku novels are "focused on plotting and clues" instead of psychology, but I can't remember the last time I read a mystery that cared so little about its murder victims. I don't require a huge amount of pathos, but I think a novel about a serial killer that never describes the victims, or shows anyone who cares about the victims, or asks the readers to care about the victims, is kind of tacky.
Man, what a great premise. The locked room murder is a dud (I challenge anyone to attempt to replicate the method the book gives for locking a door from the outside; it simply wouldn't work), but the main focus of the novel is the Azuth murders, and the solution to that works better (and is much more straightforward than the book description wants you to believe; I identified the murderer before it was revealed, which I very rarely can do).
The detective is ... functional. One of dozens of generically "eccentric" private detectives that populate the genre. I do wish the victims of the Azuth murders had been characterized literally at all. It's all very well for the Afterwards to claim that honkaku novels are "focused on plotting and clues" instead of psychology, but I can't remember the last time I read a mystery that cared so little about its murder victims. I don't require a huge amount of pathos, but I think a novel about a serial killer that never describes the victims, or shows anyone who cares about the victims, or asks the readers to care about the victims, is kind of tacky.
challenging
dark
mysterious
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 Tokyo Zodiac Murders is such a complex murder mystery, with some cosy elements. We follow 2 very likeable amateur sleuths who task themselves with the responsibility of solving a 40 year old cold case - the murders of one man and his 6 daughters. I loved the characters, as well as the setting and it was written in such a unique way I’ve never experienced before. The author breaks the fourth wall and inputs himself into the story, urging us as the reader to solve the mystery ourselves with the clues given. I’m nowhere near clever enough to have solved the case myself, but I loved that interactive element. I’ve settled on a 3.5 for this one, but rounded up due to the uniqueness and how much of a fun time this was. ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5