vinreads 's review for:

Murdle: Volume 1 by G.T. Karber

3.75

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I won't lie, it wasn't incredibly clear that there was a plot that went with this. I therefore spent half the book just doing the puzzles and not reading the words get the solution because I figured it was useless drivel like "Oh no, you caught me" and not ensuing plot. But there was plot, and it was kinda cool and also the detectives are rivals AND GAY and I love a secret LGBT book, and I love even more a book I can write in and solve puzzles in. Some of them had literal errors such as the puzzle that said "members of this group are rivals with members of this group" but suggested that a member of group A had the weapon that was found in the location the person from group B was in, which would mean the person in group B had the weapon, but it was revealed in the actual solution that the person from group A had the weapon. There were a couple of puzzles like that where I was literally just reading the answers because I was so confused by the contradicting sentences that I literally could not solve it, but other than that, it was fun, and I didn't mind flipping back and forth to find my answers. I picked up Vol. 2 this year, thank god because I got a wild inclination to finish Vol 1. so now I have more puzzles to do. I take this book everywhere and do puzzles in the car as a passenger, at restaurants, on my downtime at work, waiting for the next act at a concert.. you name it. I'm glad there's multiple books too.