Now there is a third strange 'murder' house? Just how many of these houses are there?
Volume 2 revealed that Yuzuki had lied about being the wife of one of the potential victims of a murder house. Turns out she is the sister of a former, and currently missing, resident of both the Tokyo and Saitama houses.
This revelation not only further complicates an already baffling and labyrinthian mystery, it also muddies the waters of trust and perception of both the narrating writer and Kurihara, said writer's speculating investigative assistant.
The opening portion of this volume felt incredibly talky. While this talk did answer a few questions, the characters wasted no time hammering those supposed answers with a volley of all new questions. The who, what, and why of these strange 'murder' houses and the mysterious people that have lived, and killed, in them remains unexplained and unexplored.
Most, if not all, of what Kurihara has hypothesized remains unproven, for now. But this volume does place both the narrator and Yuzuki inside the third house, where they can run Kurihara's theories through a testable reality.
The pacing here is meticulous and slow, which drapes a palpable and smothering sense of dread over the narrator and Yuzuki as they make their way through the dark and seemingly deserted third house.
Once more I was moved to the edge of my seat, precariously balanced between wanting the narrator to learn what is really going on and thinking it might be best if said narrator dropped the whole thing before something terrible happens.
Still loving that I am both hoping and dreading whatever does or does not come next...
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