Reviews - Death on Gokumon Island

542 reviews for:

Death on Gokumon Island

Seishi Yokomizo

3.75 AVERAGE

tokujoe's review against another edition

4.5

tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

anniehayez's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was a solid mystery with great structure and an awesome ending. My main complaint is some of the colloquialisms that the book includes are very bizarre. I have to imagine that is a consequence of translation. It was a particularly good audio book and it kept me guessing the whole time. I just couldn’t help laughing everytime a “goatee trembled”

rosebudglow's review against another edition

1.0

I don't know if it was the writing or translation but this was really quite bad. The dialogue was unnatural, varying wildly between stilted and uncomfortably causal. The plot was somehow at the same time ridiculously simple and impossible to follow (maybe because of the doyle-esque style of refusing to give the audience all the clues so that we're shocked when the genius discovers the plot) (maybe because things simply didn't make sense, how was a papier-mâché bell in the water for hours without dissolving?)