bookishwanderess 's review for:

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

3.0

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*3.5 stars*

It took me a while to get into this, at first I was a bit bored. It was until the murders actually started that I got invested in this. But overall, it was a compelling isolated closed-circle mystery, by the end, I really wanted to figure out what was going on in the island but also why there was a whole perspective that took place outside of the island. I appreciated the ending, I wasn't expecting the reveal at all.

I think I would have liked this more if it wasn't because I stopped reading one day without realizing that the big reveal was coming in the next chapter, so when I picked the book up again the following day, the reveal happened immediately and it went over my head because I was not immersed in the book yet since I had just picked it back up.