The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

This is a puzzle book. If you read it as a regular novel you will be disappointed. Instead see it as the equivalent of the puzzle page of a newspaper. You're not here for the characters or story. You're here to solve a riddle. This is a book that expects your participation. You can just sit back and let the events unfold but you will enjoy it much more if you try to solve it on your own. And it is solveable.

As a puzzle I would give this 5/5

as a novel... the writing and characters were mediocre. There were some instances of classic menwritingwomen.txt too. For all of this I would give it a 2/5. All flaws that would ruin another book. But here it isn't all that relevant. At the end of the day I will mainly judge the book by what it set out to do - be a puzzle. As a puzzle I would give this 5/5. The flaws did bother me to a certain extent but not enough to bog down the rating to more than a 4.