The book was able to keep the eerie and serious feel to it all throughout. There are no side antics or banters and unnecessary story lines which made the story not dragging. Their back stories were exquisitely told to connect it to their actions. The characters were made established which made me appreciate the characters even more. Two of the characters here are geniuses and I enjoyed how the author employed math and science concepts in the story line which made the story even more exciting. I also like how the story is so plot and character driven. I believe the book was also marketed also become a standalone although a part of the series. I did not feel like I was missing something from the two earlier books. That did not in any way affected my reading experience. This is the third book in the series, which I only learned after finishing the book. It became a test of how strong the alibis of the culprits stood and how the alibi got refuted. One always at the trail of the other and the other avoiding the chance to be caught. I really enjoyed how the author created two characters that intelligently outwit each other. The book lead me to the viewpoints of the police investigators and the perpetrators. What follows is a cat and mouse story of chasing and catching with the officers proving who the real culprits are. The storyline was immediately established at the start of the novel, as the murder happened during the first and second chapters and we already know who the culprit is. If you think that that’s a spoiler, you probably are right but that is just the tip of the iceberg. The book follows the story as to how detective Kusanagi with his assistant Yukawa, who is a physicist, solves a murder whose mastermind is high school math teacher, Ishigami, to help his next door neighbor, Yasuko.

― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X “Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.”

The devotion of suspect x book review