This "Player-as-You-Play" is very interesting to read, and it is the kind of narrative that I like to scatter the threads and finally put them all away.
The author, Zhao Jingyi, has seen more of her translated works before. I didn't expect her first suspense novel to be so amazing.
When I first started reading the book "The Game of The Playing Player", I thought it was a short story collection, and then I used one of the short stories to make the name of the book. However, after reading it, you will find that this is not the case at all. All the stories are actually strung together into a game, like a werewolf killing that spans time and space, and you can only discover the true face of the event until you see it at the end.
Since it is in the name of the game, the style of several novels is relatively relaxed. Even if there is a killing, it does not appear bloody and fearful. It can be said that it is a "light reasoning".
It can be seen that Zhao Jingyi's preference for Benge reasoning, most of the events are declassified-oriented. Reading speculative fiction, I myself prefer to read Benge, so I prefer to guess puzzles. Although my level of reasoning is below the average, it does not prevent me from being passionate about this style of fiction.
The first person in this book is used more, which may make the reader feel more substitutionary and more convenient for the development of the whole event. It is precisely because of the first-person description that the emotions and mental processes of the characters in the novel can be understood and felt by the readers.
For example, in "Soul Exchange Experience", Rosa as the protagonist, the first perspective, from her narration, the reader can naturally feel that although she feels love in that family, she also has a sense of alienation. The author may be trying to echo the mystery, but in fact, through the emotional clues left by the author everywhere, experienced readers should be able to guess the mystery at once. And I feel that what the author wants to express may not only be a kind of deciphering pleasure, but also want to express the emotional contradictions of the characters under a special family background.
People have a natural attachment to home, and if the environment changes in the middle, it is extremely detrimental to the parenting and growth of children. Children who change their environment frequently from an early age are more indifferent and more likely to close themselves off. This can also be felt in another article, "A Day of Constant Repetition".
A Day of Constant Repetition uses a method commonly used in speculative fiction— narrative trickery. Although I realized in the middle of reading the novel that the author was using narrative, I still did not guess what the author was telling! Experienced readers may be able to see the biggest mystery of this novel between the lines, which is indeed a point that I did not expect.
In addition to burying a puzzle, the protagonist's own personality and relationships with other people are also particularly delicately written. This may be the advantage of female writers. In the theme of suspense and puzzle solving, a person's psychological emotions can also be described particularly delicately. Therefore, although the protagonist is a girl with a very unpleasant personality, it also reflects the voice of many people, that is, social fear, does not like to chase the trend, and likes to stay alone. So when I read this story, I actually have a partial sense of identification with the protagonist, and it can be said that this is the part of the truth that exists in my heart.
The story of "The Man from the Past and the Vanishing UFO" uses a girl in a remote mountainous area to decrypt a suspected cross-over puzzle that takes place in a remote mountainous area through a communication with a boy in the city. This story is not very speculative, and it feels like it is preparing for the next two stories.
"Detective Roundtable" and "Player Game" are two novels, but they are actually the same event. This grand finale event was very interesting. The two articles use the first perspective of two different people to explore the ethical issues of artificial intelligence AI and human love and killing. It can be said that this is the intrinsic reasoning of a science fiction department.
The whole story is somewhat similar to the Blizzard Mountain Villa mode of "No One Survives", and it seems to be a realistic version of werewolf killing, "the murderer is between us", such a setting is the easiest to make people bloody and eager to try.
Until the final puzzle is solved, you will find out what the author finally retracted the thread, and then you will suddenly realize that this is the case again.
In general, Zhao Jingyi's Virgo makes people feel very surprised, the character emotions are handled very delicately, and since then, the domestic suspense industry has added a new star.
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