[Book Review] Silent Parade

Having watched the movie adaptation of this novel onscreen, I'm definitely pulled to also try to get my hands on reading the novel version. While I'm glad there was an english translated version for Silent Parade, it does make me wonder why the translation skipped a title and didn't also translated the novel that came before this novel, aka The Forbidden Magic/Kindan no Majutsu. Alas I'll reserve that question for another time.

Well, back to Silent Parade we're reintroduced to our main trio as it's been several years since the last two novels, A Midsummer's Equation and Forbidden Magic. Kusanagi has now become Chief Inspector while Yukawa is now a Professor after returning from abroad. It's then Kusanagi, Utsumi and Yukawa got involved in a certain case in a town called Kikuno.

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