Has anyone read Death Notice by Zhou Haohui? I picked it up on impulse at the weekend and I’m nearly halfway through so far. To be honest, I’m still waiting to be gripped. It seems like a fairly standard crime thriller—but maybe I’m just out of practice at reading the genre. Or perhaps it’s just about to get good!
Also: please ‘enjoy’ some of the most egregious #menWritingWomen I’ve seen in a long while. (Sorry, no alt text, because a page is too many characters.) Mu Jianyun also likes to opine that men are scum whenever she feels no one has noticed her gender enough lately, sigh.
I hope she’s the murderer—that would be the only redeeming plot development for this crumminess.
Finished #DeathNotice over lunch just now! The second half was indeed more fun than the first, and there’s a good twist at the end, though I do feel a bit:
person who constantly reads xianxia, wuxia and SFF: I just think these modern crime thrillers take too much suspension of disbelief
Fave character from the back half of the book: Brother Hua. We love a villain’s hypercompetent right-hand-man who owes a life debt to said villain and would die for him, oh yes we do. (Did I mentally cast him as
Feng Mingjing? Obviously.)
It felt so weird to be reading a printed book set in China where I couldn’t just look up the hanzi for characters’ names!!
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