Week 1: 46番目の密室

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Week 1

Start Date: Jan 03
Next Part: Week 2

Reading:

Week	Start Date	Chapter	Start Page	Page Count
Week 1	Jan 03	Flashback + Chapter 1	7	52

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[BadPlayer]

Those books are real, btw They’re known as the “Student Alice” series, and this is the first book of the “Writer Alice” series. Also, just like how in the Writer Alice series the Student Alice books are in-universe books written by Writer Alice, my understanding is that in the Student Alice series the Writer Alice books are in-universe books written by Student Alice. Just to make it more fun!

[Ryohei11]

This was a great start! I like his prose and how rich this first chapter is. I really love the atmosphere so far.

I also really enjoyed the two protagonists interactions, and the ツッコミ of 有栖川. I laughed way more than I thought I would when 有栖 introduced 火村 as someone who has an opinion about everything.

Overall, I had to read at a slower pace because of all the characters that were suddenly introduced. I’m glad that the author gave them really common names haha.

As soon as 真壁 was introduced, I started having heavy『硝子塔の殺人』flashbacks, even though it should be the other way around haha

To me the most interesting part in this first chapter was 真壁’s abstract monologue about 推理小説, but I’ll have to read it again.

I have some crazy theories about the killer, even if nobody has been killed yet

[BadPlayer]

Maybe it’s just from immediately coming off 硝子塔の殺人, but this feels kinda slow so far. Ah well. We already have the obvious setup, with Makabe’s insistence of only writing one more locked room mystery (硝子塔の殺人 intensifies), so we’ll see how/why that ties into the murder, as well as the fire at the beginning. Every other Arisugawa book I’ve read involves the cast getting stranded, so I’m curious if that’ll still happen here, considering it seems to take place in a random suburb.