Here is the review
of the latest book from Blogadda, a cool, dark thriller with a twister of an
ending.
Title: The Devotion of Suspect X
Author: Keigo Higashino
Plot: Yasuko Hanaoka, a pretty, single mother, works at a lunch box shop
and lives a quiet, peaceful life with her teenage daughter. That is till her abusive,
extorting ex-husband shows up outside her door. What happens then shatters the harmony
of her life and her daughter’s. The events that follow are surprising and
scary, to say the least and it all ends in a way she couldn’t have ever
imagined. Why is Ishigami, the introverted, genius mathematician next door,
doing what he is?? What exactly does Yukawa, the brilliant physicist, know
about what happened? Will Detective Kusanagi be able to unravel all the threads
of this tightly bound knot? How can a quiet and seemingly boring person have so
much passion inside?
Review: The story is set in modern day Japan
All the characters
in the novel are believable and may very well be people we see around in our
daily lives. But that is exactly what makes the story so intriguing – we can
hardly imagine an ordinary person with an ordinary job having the kind of
passion and love described in the story. The characters here are all well
fleshed out, with little details given that make them very real.
Though a mystery
novel, this is not your regular whodunit. It is kind of a reverse engineering
process. The underlying question throughout the story would be the one asked by
Yukawa, “Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that
problem?” If this sounds like going round in circles, then I suggest you read
the book to understand it!!
The ending of the
book is superb; the reader walks straight into the writer’s little trap and you
get an ending you wouldn’t have seen coming from miles away. It took me a few
minutes to actually sink in!!
The translation of
the novel has been done very well, and there are hardly any hiccups in the
narrative. It is a smooth read, though you’ll probably get goosebumps at the
end, especially if you’ve been reading the entire novel at a stretch – and that
is quite possible, considering how unpredictable the story is.
2 comments
hmmm..sounds interesting! Will check it out! Hope you are having a wonderful day!
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Do check it out, Jyoti, it really won't disappoint you!
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