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OriginalBarbas

OriginalBarbas@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

He/Him. A wandering Spanish physicist who reads too much of everything that is not related to my work. I enjoy reading books (mostly #SciFi, #fantasy or #mystery), comics (mainly #EuropeanBD but I just devour anything that looks interesting to me) and from time to time #TTRPG manuals, #nonfiction (#physics and #anarchism) and whatever else I find that might be cool. Glad to join Bookwyrm and I'm loooking forward to see what everyone is reading!

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Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen (Paperback, 2004, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )) 4 stars

The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series …

A brilliant mix of historical fiction, crime novel and spy fiction

4 stars

It is the first book in the series, but the second one I read from the author and I have to say that I was expecting something more in line with what I have read from his other book (a political and mystery novel, with a very experienced detective).

This one tells the tale of a novice detective on his first case and it evolves into a daring tale of espionage and conspiracy, spanning continents. Good pacing, good character developments and very entertaining. I am definitely looking forward to reading more!

Alex Pavesi: Eight Detectives (2020, Penguin Books, Limited) 5 stars

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. …

An exceedingly original murder mistery

5 stars

When I picked up this novel as "documentation" for a locked room mystery TTRPG that I am (very slowly) developing, I definitely didn´t know that it was going to be so fitting to it and that it was going to provide me with a mathematical ruleset for designing murder mysteries.

All in all, this is a collection of several stories, with an overarching theme and a plot that links the whole story. The general idea revolves around providing a mathematical definition for a murder mystery and the possible permutations within it.

This has been the happiest I've been studying a mathematical definition ever (and, as a physicist I've had my more than fair share of theorems, definitions and other mathematical fauna to study) and it has been a joyful ride, at least for me (unlike for the characters involved). I highly recommend it and I am looking forward to further …