now hear me out,,,,Erast might be the apple of my eye, my poor little meow meow, my blorbo from my shows but BY GOD Masa is the true mvp of this whole affair, like, I’ve only known him since this volume but if anything were to happen to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself T_T (I swear if that statement ages poorly it’s on sight Boris Akunin)

ANYWAY! I would have gladly given this a 4 star rating because I’m a simple girl, I like a political intrigue but while I really enjoyed the first two thirds of this the book does a whole 180 in the last 100 pages and decides to tell me the whole ass life story of the guy who committed the crime Fandorin is trying to solve and I was just like?? bruh?
The two perspective situation made the last two chapters EXTREMELY enjoyable tho so I gotta give it to them