Reviews - The Big Four: Agatha Christie 100th Anniversary Collection

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The Big Four: Agatha Christie 100th Anniversary Collection

This book is very different from Agatha Christie's normal Poirot books. I really enjoy reading Poirot because it keeps me guessing to the end, and there's always some really intricate mystery. However, I thought that this was just really basic. It was hard to get through. Nothing about it was particularly suspenseful or intriguing. I was bored.

4/10.(2/5)

rosearchive's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Well this was definitely unlike any of christie’s other works. Instead of her usual murder mysteries of “Who did it?”, this book is more of a sum of different cases in which there leads a direct tie to four people referred to as “The big four”.

Honestly, at the beginning of this, I did not find “The Big Four” to actually be a real organization..maybe it’s because of how different this story was compared to christie’s other ones, but I honestly thought the whole thing was a sham.

In this book, I was kinda disappointed by Poirot and felt he wasn’t hercule poiroting as usual. A few things that I instantly guessed at seemed to pass by him which was very..odd. It felt like christie diminished some of poirot’s qualities in order to make it seem as if he finally faced his “biggest challenge”. I was still entertained by the book though. Poirot definitely fooled me with that “twin brother” act.