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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Tidak seperti buku detektif pada umumnya, buku ini juga membahas masalah-masalah calon tersangkanya
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
if you don't mind a cozy mystery, then go for it !
The newcomer adalah novel kedua keigo higashino yang saya baca, dan saya cukup menyukai alur ceritanya, terutama dengan kepribadian detektif kaga yang manis dan unik. sepanjang buku, saya sangat menikmati jalan penyelidikan serta sangkut paut orang orang dengan kasus pembunuhannya. ya, ini merupakan novel misteri yang cukup ringan.
bukunya tidak terlalu menegangkan, dan saya rada kurang _ngena_ sama endingnya. tapi saya suka dengan jalan ceritanya bagaimana detektif kaga mengungkap kasus dengan keterampilan pengamatan tajamnya dan kekuatan deduksinya sebagai detektif.
The newcomer adalah novel kedua keigo higashino yang saya baca, dan saya cukup menyukai alur ceritanya, terutama dengan kepribadian detektif kaga yang manis dan unik. sepanjang buku, saya sangat menikmati jalan penyelidikan serta sangkut paut orang orang dengan kasus pembunuhannya. ya, ini merupakan novel misteri yang cukup ringan.
bukunya tidak terlalu menegangkan, dan saya rada kurang _ngena_ sama endingnya. tapi saya suka dengan jalan ceritanya bagaimana detektif kaga mengungkap kasus dengan keterampilan pengamatan tajamnya dan kekuatan deduksinya sebagai detektif.
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
My first 5/5 book this year
Terjadi pembunuhan terhadap wanita yang hidup seorang diri berusia 45 tahun. Dan Detektif Kaga yang baru pindah ditugaskan membantu Detektif Metropolitan untuk memecahkan kasus ini.
Jujur jujuran dulu, aku udah sering banget dengar rekomendasi karyanya Keigo-sensei. Tapi masih maju mundur karena itu cerita detektif, misteri, pembunuhan. Aku selalu mencoba ngumpulin niat di momen ketika otak aku fresh karena aku kira bukunya akan terasa berat dan menguras pikiran. (٥↼_↼)
Ternyata, aku salah.
Harusnya aku berkiblat ke Kelontong Namiya ya, yang mana bukunya padet tapi saking ngalirnya aku bisa enjoy selama baca tanpa tersesat di alurnya.
Ya, ini yang aku rasain ketika aku baca novel ini.
Ya sesuai blurb nya, dari awal sampe akhir mengisahkan bagaimana usaha Detektif Kaga untuk mengusut kasus pembunuhan yang terjadi.
Dengan clue clue yang ada, dari sejak halaman awal udah ditunjukkan pola pikir Detektif Kaga yang cerdas dan sat set sat set.
Aku suka banget sama alurnya. Selain fokus ke kasus utama. Di sini banyak hal hal yang sus dari saksi saksi yang ditemui, lalu muncul kecurigaan, lalu penjelasan dari konfliknya, dan ditutup dengan penyelesaian yang ... heartwarming, i guess. (• ▽ •;)
Jadi di sini enggak dibikin terlalu lama dikasih beban clue pengecoh yang (apesnya) bisa bikin enggak fokus ke kasus utama.
Enggak predicable, tapi juga enggak bikin mumet. What a good point.(~‾▿‾)~
Btw ini buku kedua Keigo Higashino yang aku baca dan bikin aku yakin kalau aku emang cocok dengan karya karya beliau (juga dengan terjemahan Kak Faira) (つ≧▽≦)つ
Special mention untuk Kakak Translator nya, karena nyawa novel terjemahan bukan cuma ada di penulis nya, tapi juga penerjemahnya.
Bahasanya oke banget, enak banget dibaca dan dipahami. Ringan dan ngalir bikin novel ini makin enjoyable.╰(*´︶`*)╯
Sangat recomended buat yang mau novel misteri tapi yang ga bikin kepala meledak, tapi masih terasa feel menebak nebaknya.♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ )
A slow-paced meandering mystery novel about a cop who gets deep results by avoiding shortcuts in his investigations. Set in an old-fashioned Tokyo neighborhood with small stores and neighbors who know each other far beyond what one might expect.
emotional
hopeful
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Surprisingly wholesome. The book was less about the murder and more about the community it touched and how civil servants could and should do more than the bare minimum.
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A well-written police procedural detective story, skilfully evoking its place and community in the setting of a traditional area in Tokyo.
The novel is made up of a number of episodes in which the MC detective calmly teases out the murder mystery by clarifying time, place and interpersonal relationships. The MC’s actions show him as being both astute and compassionate. There are quite a few characters, but I didn’t find myself overwhelmed because of the way in which the MC focuses on one situation at a time, gaining an understanding of relationships and personalities.
The plot may strike some readers as being a bit meandering, but I felt that gave it a more realistic feeling of a mystery gradually being untangled, occasionally after investigating leads that turned out to be irrelevant for its solution – though even then still revealing more about the place and community.
A small weakness in this edition is the copy editing – the layout of dialogue occasionally confused me as to who was speaking and also some obvious errors occur (e.g., “there someone was behind him” [Chapter 1, Section 5], “that’s not the how police investigations work” [Chapter 2, Section 5]) – and some of the English figures of speech in the translation didn’t quite jell with the context.
All the same, overall a great read with excellent characterisation.
The novel is made up of a number of episodes in which the MC detective calmly teases out the murder mystery by clarifying time, place and interpersonal relationships. The MC’s actions show him as being both astute and compassionate. There are quite a few characters, but I didn’t find myself overwhelmed because of the way in which the MC focuses on one situation at a time, gaining an understanding of relationships and personalities.
The plot may strike some readers as being a bit meandering, but I felt that gave it a more realistic feeling of a mystery gradually being untangled, occasionally after investigating leads that turned out to be irrelevant for its solution – though even then still revealing more about the place and community.
A small weakness in this edition is the copy editing – the layout of dialogue occasionally confused me as to who was speaking and also some obvious errors occur (e.g., “there someone was behind him” [Chapter 1, Section 5], “that’s not the how police investigations work” [Chapter 2, Section 5]) – and some of the English figures of speech in the translation didn’t quite jell with the context.
All the same, overall a great read with excellent characterisation.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Child death, Alcohol
Minor: Infertility, Toxic relationship
This is my first Keigo Higashino novel, and I wonder if I might have liked it more had I read earlier stories involving the detective, Kyochiro Kaga, who has recently been demoted to the Nihonbashi precinct. The reason for the demotion is hinted at very late in the novel, Kaga clearly has a richly storied past, but not knowing any of it --- I think --- put me at a disadvantage here.
Divorcee, Mineko Mitsui, has been discovered murdered in her apartment and Kaga --- not unlike Columbo with his sly-seemingly-off-the-cuff, no worries questioning --- works his way through the neighborhood, observing and noticing details and inconsistencies invisible to others, his powers of observation and intuitive assumptions akin to Sherlock Holmes, too.
The story builds and layers and deepens as Kaga digs into backgrounds and hints in what amount to short-story-esque vignettes centered in different business in the district; a cracker shop, restaurant, china shop, clock shop, pastry shop, translator's friendship, cleaning company, handicraft shop, and an accounting firm.
Lots of characters (with a helpful cast list at the beginning of the novel) to keep straight, and an outcome I'm not sure was possible to determine from the information we're given --- but maybe I'm just not attentive enough to have dug it out. It moves quickly, and Kaga is quite likeable --- what we get of him from this edition --- like I said, maybe if I'd read the earlier books in the series and gotten to know him, I'd have enjoyed it more.
Note, there are a number of awkward sentences, words missing, two versions of one sentence with part of one and part of another left --- as in, editing and translation issues. Not a lot, but enough to be annoying.
Divorcee, Mineko Mitsui, has been discovered murdered in her apartment and Kaga --- not unlike Columbo with his sly-seemingly-off-the-cuff, no worries questioning --- works his way through the neighborhood, observing and noticing details and inconsistencies invisible to others, his powers of observation and intuitive assumptions akin to Sherlock Holmes, too.
The story builds and layers and deepens as Kaga digs into backgrounds and hints in what amount to short-story-esque vignettes centered in different business in the district; a cracker shop, restaurant, china shop, clock shop, pastry shop, translator's friendship, cleaning company, handicraft shop, and an accounting firm.
Lots of characters (with a helpful cast list at the beginning of the novel) to keep straight, and an outcome I'm not sure was possible to determine from the information we're given --- but maybe I'm just not attentive enough to have dug it out. It moves quickly, and Kaga is quite likeable --- what we get of him from this edition --- like I said, maybe if I'd read the earlier books in the series and gotten to know him, I'd have enjoyed it more.
Note, there are a number of awkward sentences, words missing, two versions of one sentence with part of one and part of another left --- as in, editing and translation issues. Not a lot, but enough to be annoying.
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Love the way, Detective Kaga tries to find out about little bits and pieces to bring it together and solve the crime. And he has been very patient and nice to the people that are kind of involve as suspects to find out and cross out one by one until he finds out the murderer. If you don't really like anything gory and love crime investigation this will be a good book to read. This is the 2nd book of the series and you can also check out the 1st book.