![]() ![]() Not only did I care about the fate of Masako and the other characters, but I kept reading because I desperately wanted to know how Kirino would solve this puzzle she had laid out for herself. To me, that made the book even more mysterious than most of the genre, because I couldn’t even imagine how everything was going to come together in the end. In fact, we see it happen, and we know the identity of everyone involved. ![]() However, in Out, we are know all about the murder and its perpetrator almost from the very beginning. It was introduced to me as a mystery novel, which always follow relatively unsurprising patterns: there is a murder, an amateur sleuth gets involved, they solve the mystery, and the crook gets their comeuppance. Devotees of the genre are in it for the twists, but the timing of them, and often the twists themselves, are all too often predictable as well. Out is a fantastic read for anyone who is sick of predictable narratives. ![]()
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