Decapitation

Kubikiri Cycle

by

Paperback, 240 pages

English language

Published April 26, 2017 by Vertical, Incorporated.

ISBN:
9781945054211

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4 stars (1 review)

A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind—one of whom ends up headless one fine morning.

The top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan, prolific palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whodunit and locked-room mystery at once old-school and eye-opening. Previously published stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator take’s character concepts.

1 edition

reviewed Decapitation by NISIOISIN

A much better closed room mistery than what I remember

4 stars

First off, a disclaimer, I have read the previous edition of this book some 10 years ago, give or take and I found it "okay". I've forgotten almost everything about the plot and characters and also the tricks involved.

So, now that I've re-read it I can say that, while I still dislike some of the characters and specially the narrator, but the pacing, twists and overall plot and solutions are quite original and well along the lines of NisiOisiN's usual writing. I am quite excited about the sequels so I might read them sooner rather than later.

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  • Fiction, general