Irfan Nurhadi's Reviews > The Tragedy of Y

One sentence. That one sentence. That one sentence was able to explain the complicated mystery that has happened. There are very few mystery novels that are able to explain its mystery only by one simple sentence. The Tragedy of Y managed to pull it off. Perfectly IMO.

Having read E.Q. novels (the first nationality titles), there are some similarities I found here. Rigorous deduction. The search of some object(s). And over-explanations of things that could be explained in a much more simple way. It is necessary I guess to accomplished the author's style of proofing-that-the-solution-of-the-mystery-only-points-to-one-and-only-one-person. What I'm saying is, It needed not to be that long. JDC could probably explain the points in a much simpler way.

Nevertheless, the writing style and the plot is very much an improvement than the previous title, and much better than the E.Q. novels. Much more dynamic and the casts of characters is more unique as well as interesting. A rich and dysfunctional family. An attempted poisoning, later followed by the death of the tyrannical matriarch. And of course, there's a will involved. And in the center of it all, a deaf-blind and dumb member of the family. What a tragedy indeed!