Status Updates From Masquerade and the Nameless...

This was garbage. Also, Yuri is an idiot who clearly should never have been made a cop, and I can't even bring myself to feel bad about what the future likely holds for her.

Hm. As it turns out, the back of the book wasn't a spoiler at all, I just didn't pay close enough attention to the name in the first chapter. But if the text was attempting misdirection, the back of the book did spoil that aspect.

I'm pretty sure this "solution" is physically impossible. Yuri is stupid for believing it, and if it turns out to be the truth, this is definitely going to be a 1-star read.

"However, if we arbitrarily assume than [redacted] was the killer, I can then theorize what [their] motive would have been."

I guess that's one way to approach a murder investigation.

I have visions of the characters theorizing this mystery to death until the killer confesses out of sheer frustration.

I think the author was aiming for this to be a deliciously twisty mystery, but the way it's set up so there's no solid ground to stand on anywhere is really annoying me.

WTF am I even reading?? And yeah, I still think the publisher's description has a huge spoiler since I'm over halfway through and that info still hasn't been revealed yet, but apparently there's so much stuff going on that it doesn't really matter.

"I didn't know whether any of his conjectures were right or not. But without a doubt, Dr. Higano had led me into mental territory I wouldn't have been able to enter on my own."

Yes, because it's complicated and bonkers, like walking outside and declaring the sky isn't actually blue, but rather that a series of tricks and misdirections makes you think it's blue. Maybe it isn't even sky at all.

No one who knew the victim has any pictures of her, not even her father. It apparently started in high school, so now I have this image of teenage Reina scouring family photo albums and burning all of her own baby pictures.

Also, I just realized that the publisher's description has what seems like a major spoiler in it. WTF?