DEFINITELY WORTH A READ (tho I'm a bit upset about the murderer's incentive)

Nessa W
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It was thoroughly an enjoyable read!
I loved how it’s inspired by And Then There Were None but also made itself distinguishable from it.
Things I loved:
The story structure around mainland and Island, and how it wraps into one.
How the author plays with nicknames and actual names of the people.
It refers to a previous murder, but although we uncovered it, it actually have nothing to do with it.
Everything - all mystery is explained throughly.
Kept me guessing til the last moment.
What Ellery said about the modern Holmes is particular thought provoking (ironical as well)
Things I don’t like:
The murderer’s motive.
hello everybody today I want to share
with you a book that I found super
exciting and such an incredible read um
so this is a book I'm sharing to so it's
called the dean horse Murs and it's one
of the most famous Japanese detective
fiction I to just like without giving
any SPS I'm to tell you what the story
is about and then share with you the
things I really love about it and the
things I don't really like about it
so the de H Murs written by um wrote by
yukito aat suji who is one of the most
famous Japanese crime fiction detect
fiction authors and I think one smallart
Island was named after him in 2010 or
something so this book is his debut one
of the most his first book and also one
his most famous books so it's about how
this group of University students
um went down to this Islands as of their
Club um Society trip and their society
is basically writing detective fictions
and reading detective fictions so the
reason why they chose this island was
because there was a horrible murder
occurred where everybody died in the
island so um so they find it and
apparently there a ghost the ghost of
the priod island owner the HT Island
they find it super exciting and then
they you know went Island for a quick
one we trip but then they begin to die
one after each other and there is the um
and then on the first day or second day
there has been mysteriously appeared
plates which say the first second third
and last victim the detective and the
there was either four or five victims
the detective and the
murderer and so basically as what the
place suggested that's how um so five
people became victims one is detective
and the other one is the murder and um
so as as the mysteriously began to you
know kind of die one after one they got
really scared and this merry group this
really merry group of people began to
turn on each other and spit in their
like dark secrets it's really exciting
and what I really loved about it how is
how it kept me guessing until the last
minute I was thinking oh it must be him
and then he turns out it's not this guy
by the other one and I was you know
guessing different people until the end
whom I never expected and that is
because it's such a clever uus such a
clever use where the club members had
English nicknames and their actual name
is Japanese so one person could have two
names and you never know which one is s
I don't think think this is G any
spoilers because you really still don't
know you still can't really guess who
the Mur is just based on this but it's
so clever and um so this book is
inspired by Aus Christies and then there
were none however they used the they
used a different story structure where
you've got the perspective of the
students on the island but you also got
perspective of other club members on the
mainland and you just watch on how they
kind of became at first it seems a bit
separate and then you see how it merges
into one story and then like aha
everything makes sense but this is also
super exciting and something I really
liked about it how he like it's inspired
from AR the Chrispy but he also
distinguishes itself as something that's
quite different especially around the
story structure that's something I I
really liked about it and some other
things I really liked about it it refers
to a previous murder on the island as I
just told however as we kind of uncover
the story through the mainlander
perspective they learn that it's
actually it's actually have nothing to
that would that be a spar they actually
have nothing much to do they see current
murder going on the island and that's
quite different from what your
personally would expect it was oh that's
must be the same thing so it's not
really a cliche um yeah that's something
I really liked about it and everything
all of the mystery with the previous
murder and with the current murder
everything is explained very thoroughly
and like all of the secrets is being
Spilled Out everything you understand
everything and it seems like the author
really has the structure he really got
everything very logically that's
something I really liked about it and
there something that I find super
thought-provoking
which is what one of the main characters
Ellery said that
um now for modern crime charlock Holmes
like there wouldn't be a charlock Holmes
anymore and because of things like
technology a mod a modern shlock home is
like a master of the latest techniques
in forensic pathology and Science and
they're really and and her explaining Al
toia Watson using complex specialist Jon
for that no reader would ever be able to
comprehend and it's like it's really
sciencey which is one type of intellect
but this other kind of intellect is the
more maybe more qualitative but there's
more um there's more this logic
and assumptions and figuring out the
motives of of the suspects even with
like CCTV whatever just figuring out the
motive and thinking everything through
understand the story and treating the
whole case almost as a intellectual quiz
I think that's something that's that's
really
fascinating but one thing I didn't
really like about the book then be
disappointed with this motive of the
murderer I understand that from his
perspective because he's been through a
lot childhood trauma so it's it's like
he even admits it's not saying to do
it's understandable from his perspective
but as a read myself I find it a bit
disappointing and I would rather wish
it's some other guy I don't to give any
spers but he actually relates to I
wanted to be at proper CA rather than
something that's
quiet that's more like just putting your
anger onto somebody else rather than
actually be
um actually be actually be disappointed
with um I'm going to give one spoiler
here so you want to read a book without
spoiler just stop here I would rather
it's the brother of the previous Island
owner that killed that kill that make
everything that killed the people
because like from his perspective it
makes sense because the students kind of
um kind of naged the um kind of knack
the go into drinking too much so she
died of heart disease is therefore um
therefore his the island so his
brother's wife who he have fairest his
brother wife is very upset and his
brother who is a super possessive and
insane man killed everybody including
himself and the wife it makes sense to
him he's like because you guys knacked
my technically my biological daughter
into drinking too much and then died now
I've lost my daughter I've lost my life
lover I've even lost my brother I've got
nobody that like friend nobody that no
I've got no family here anymore it makes
sense for him to then put the anger on
the innocent Not Innocent but not not
guilty either on the students that makes
sense but just because hey you guys
knacked my girlfriend into drinking so
you are all murderers I'm going to kill
each of you off and even her friend even
my girlfriend my girlfriend's friend
because she was like she didn't stop her
from drinking and not like she kned her
she just didn't stop her it's her fault
as well like why don't you look at
yourself dude if you were there the
whole time like she wouldn't have died
but that's something bit I don't really
like about it I the motive is a bit
disappointing i' I'd rather is coiro I'd
rather if it's the previous Island
owner's brother it would it would just
make bit more sense to me but that is
that I still recommend it for other five
it's still a really lovely book and it
really got me thinking about intellect
what kind of you know it's not just
science and programming that's
intellectual but being very qualitative
and thinking about logic and be able to
be a good writer that is a very that's a
equally intellectual thing it's not just
what our society kind of thinks other
stem students are smarter than the than
more like non St human um Humanity
students I think that's a perception at
least my my my my psf kind of that I
felt I'm not sure if it's to you guys
but that got me thinking about yeah
intellect logic um science versus the
more traditional kind of detectiv mes
thinking about
motives and yeah such an interesting
story
