One-Sentence Summary: Roger Ackroyd's lover is going to reveal who has been blackmailing her and forces her to commit suicide, but the blackmailer has acted first before the revelation. The narrator, Dr James Sheppard, introduces himself at the beginning of his memoir and recalls a murder that occurred in his…
One-Sentence Summary: A survival game show involves a man who keeps running from being killed by a group of hitmen hired by a government-operated tv station. The story sets in a fictional Co-Op City in the year 2025. America has become a totalitarian dystopia, and the world's economy is in…
One-Sentence Summary: The death of a pawnbroker drives two young people to dark and sinister life. Yosuke Kirihara, a pawnbroker, was found dead by a kid at an abandoned construction site. Before his death, Yosuke visited one of his customers, Fumiyo Nishimoto, leading detective Sasagaki, wondering whether there had an…
One-Sentence Summary: A story of a gunslinger who keeps chasing after the Man in Black to seek information about the Dark Tower. The gunslinger had been following the Man in Black across the desert for two months. There was nothing in the remains but only burned grass with the familiar…
One-Sentence Summary: A life journey of an art thief after the loss of his mother. The narrator confines himself in a hotel room, thinking of his mother and later reveals that he is a 27-year-old American man who travels to Amsterdam for the first time. He is eager to get…
One-Sentence Summary: Harry Potter is running away from Voldemort while searching for Horcruxes simultaneously but is upset with Dumbledore's past and gets himself confused with Deathly Hallows. Voldemort and his followers gather at Lucius Malfoy's manor. The Death Eaters provide their updates about Harry's latest whereabouts so that Voldemort can…
One-Sentence Summary: Teenagers' confusions of their love interests, Voldemort's history before going to the dark side, and Harry's obsession with Draco Malfoy's whereabouts. I am glad that the story for once has a different beginning that does not involve Dursleys' mistreatment of Harry Potter. It has an uncommon start with…
One-Sentence Summary: Ministry of Magic interferes with Hogwarts's administration and denies the truth of the return of Voldemort, forcing the students to rebel for freedom and the revelation for the truth. On one of the hottest nights of the summer, Harry has an argument with his cousin Dudley on the…
One-Sentence Summary: Voldemort wants to regain his power, but he needs to lure Harry Potter to get something from Harry to help him rise again. I already got hooked with the story when it begins with rumours from villagers about a murder that happened a long time ago in their…
One-Sentence Summary: Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban and is targeting to kill Harry but later finds out the cause of his parents' deaths is related to Sirius Black. Uncle Vernon's sister, Aunt Marge, visits the Dursleys and has many verbal attacks against Harry's family. So far in this series,…