Snow White / スノーホワイト

Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the cleverest of them all?

Snow White is a light, cute and unique book, and now that I’ve read the second Sanzunokawa book, I think I have a much better idea of how this series operates. They are deductive novels, not murder mysteries. They involve some supernatural element, with the characters trying to achieve some goal revolving around that supernatural element.

And the series detective, Kotowari Sanzunokawa, is the villain.

Cat Food / キャットフード

Cat Food is a book about man-eating shape-shifting magic cats.

In the world of Cat Food cats can talk and have their very own laws and society, hidden just beyond our own. A very small percentage of cats are born with the ability to shape-shift and are known as “bakeneko”. So what happens when a group of unsuspecting humans visit an island full of bakeneko trying to kill them? Well, presumably nothing good for the humans...