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A review by ladydewinter
探偵ガリレオ Tantei Garireo by Keigo Higashino
4.0
The first book of Higashino's "Tantei Galileo" series consists of five short stories that all deal with strange phenomena. In order to solve the cases the leading detective, Kusanagi, has to resort to his friend Yukawa for help, a physics professor. The cases are interesting; and even though they read very construed that doesn't make them any less interesting, somehow. Kusanagi and Yukawa are a fun team, although Kusanagi does come across as very... well. Let's assume he's really good at solving cases that don't have to do with strange phenomena.
What Higashino is really good at is making the reader like or dislike a character in a matter of seconds. Since I was already manipulated by him once I probably paid a little more attention to it than I usually would, but he really does it well. The first story especially was very difficult in that regard because you cannot help like the perpetrator.
Since Yukawa is a physics professor it makes sense that there is quite a bit of physics related vocab, but I am happy to say I handled that quite well. What was difficult were the names without furigana - I admit most of the time I made a reading up because I am very bad at names.
While I don't feel the necessity to order all other books by him, now, I definitely intend to read more by him when I'm in the mood for mysteries.
What Higashino is really good at is making the reader like or dislike a character in a matter of seconds. Since I was already manipulated by him once I probably paid a little more attention to it than I usually would, but he really does it well. The first story especially was very difficult in that regard because you cannot help like the perpetrator.
Since Yukawa is a physics professor it makes sense that there is quite a bit of physics related vocab, but I am happy to say I handled that quite well. What was difficult were the names without furigana - I admit most of the time I made a reading up because I am very bad at names.
While I don't feel the necessity to order all other books by him, now, I definitely intend to read more by him when I'm in the mood for mysteries.