Getting better at making smaller and smaller circles

On this world, people have 2 roles, either be the problem or the solution. In some cases, it is the helper and the helpee. On my perspective, getting better is like a " how to" manual or "for dummies" book. The book is set on the popular culture since it is hip, it is published in a magazine, and the idea of it fall under our time on which a lot can relate to is just brilliant!

The story is set on Karen who has problems in her lovelife, career, family well basically we also face in life. The story revolves on Karen narrating tips and tricks whenever she falls in a situation which needs a fix. One thing I liked about the text is that the setting is based here in our time, with very significant places which are common here in the country and outside the country.

Although I did not like the way the author used as hints to find out if a person is gay, it is very stereotypical from my perspective I mean some of the descriptions there was something I can relate to so would that mean I am gay? And the idea of having the ideal buddy in the sense of miko is just wrong, we male people have distinctions and we just don't give in to what we want, we are also sensitive creatures and we also have the right to be irrational once in a while!

If this were hip before and the characters from the other texts read this, they could have done something better.

As an individual, I loved reading or watching mystery or perhaps horror and detective work. I mostly watch gore like Saw, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs etc. and the last book I read was Angels and Demons by Dan Brown so I guess I could enjoy the book "smaller and smaller circles" but I felt a sense of being stupified along the way. Who would put Priests in a crime investigation with a lot of characters which was better even if you didn't add them at all.

I liked the idea of having murder being the theme for the Philippines, but lets get real, a killing in payatas would be like a normal brawl in taguig and even if there were casualties, the police officers here in the country would just take it normally and write up a report.

The plot was okay I guess, but the twist and the case just left left me hanging, honestly when I read detective books, I feel as though I am intelligent as the main character and try to solve the case with my own understanding of the clues involved. But in smaller... the suspect was already there and the characters play out dumb and waited till the end where they then realize who the killer is, and irony the climax was too predictable that the killer would kill himself in a process. Much like foreshadowing, they said that the killer may either be dead or alive and they will go on a manhunt.

looking back, the main characters don't seem like the type of priests at all, it is like they were given the title but all through out the story, they were acting like common folk. But in a much deeper perspective, the story gave the feeling of teaching how the police force reacts here in the country. They have basis on where to act fast and so does the media which feeds on major controversies in the cities, but how about the provinces?!

I realized how poor our force was and how badly they take care of situations, the boundaries of rich and poor are clearly stated by our reactions such as the setting of the killings in payatas, we need to change that and that maybe the hidden meaning that the author wants to point out, to be aware and get involved. Somehow, it is connected to generations because there is a need for the government to act fast for their citizens.