Disclaimer: Spoilers! This is a review, what do you expect? After I read The Devotion of Suspect X and liked it so much, my friend and her mom immediately recommended to me the Detective Kaga series from the same author. According to her, the two series from the author – Detective Kaga and Detective Galileo, […]
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Weird, but compelling: A review of Uketsu’s Strange Houses
I read Uketsu’s Strange Houses. Why, you ask, did I read the second book in a series that I knew nothing about? Because I had a flat tyre, and I was waiting for it to be fixed, and this was the only book my friend had at hand. And I had a good time reading […]
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A Review of Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
Note: This review contains spoilers. Please turn away now. We have a phone for complaints regarding spoilers, but we deliberately do not man it. Nor give out the number. As a male from a famously male-dominated society, where many women are sold into slavery in the name of marriage, it’s easy for me to look […]
The Asian self-sacrificial urge: A review of The Devotion of Suspect X
I have a friend who reads just mysteries and thrillers – every time she talks about books, it’s either Frieda McFadden (who she hates, but loves to read – in order to hate), or Riley Sager, or many of the usual suspects whose names are thrown around in the mystery/thriller sphere. After she came to […]
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