那年，東眼山，斜角派出所

I didn’t like this book as much as 403小組，警隊出動！or 七十號，你的鳥歪了, but I still enjoyed reading it a lot.
403小組，警隊出動！was depicting daily work at a busy police station with quotas to meet and a lot of pressure on low rank officers who had to work insane shifts. In 那年，東眼山，斜角派出所, it’s the complete reverse. We’re in a quiet place where nothing really happens in terms of crime, but social unrest is growing as anti-governmental protest is getting more and more virulent, especially among students.
那年，東眼山，斜角派出所 is a coming of age novel, it has a little bit of romance, and exposes police misconduct while also giving an engaging plot.
The only thing that I would maybe criticise a bit, is that the plot and the way the relation evolves between the two protagonists (a young policeman who just does his job and doesn’t understand politics all that much, and a student involved in the protest with a lot of political awareness and strong views on everything) is not really new and very foreseeable.
I still loved it, I really love Yen Yu’s writing style, and I like how the three police novels I read so far all have very different settings and plots.