Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Nemesis by Agatha Christie

10 reviews

meekumoh's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

So bittersweet to see Rafiel brought back this way. But what a wonderful story. Finally Ms Marple taking center stage. Pity it's the second last book in the series. 

Of course, there's a healthy scoop of slut shaming and racism for the era. I've read enough Christie to glaze over it but it's very present and unapologetic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Rape, and Xenophobia

bessadams's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Murder

fyre_flies's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Rape

es1265's review against another edition

mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

1.5

The plot bored me a lot ngl and there was a lot of stuff in there

in particular how sexual assault victims were portrayed

which rubbed me the wrong way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Ableism

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Sexism, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Grief, and Misogyny

hkburke2's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I see why people don't like this one - definitely read the content warnings or other reviews for more on that. But it's helped me read a book in a stressful time and I found it both familiar (for Marple) and surprising (for the way the mystery was presented). I also liked that there was a slight connection to the Caribbean mystery one and more references to other characters in this universe. (But I am still laughing about MM's description of women as "less accurate" than men!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Murder, Rape, and Sexism

poirot's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Racism, Sexism, Rape, Xenophobia, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Ableism

bmassaroti's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I honestly did not like the ending HAHAHA geez I did not think this was possible but it was. The beginning is so slow it got into my nerves, sorry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Minor: Biphobia

exlibrissum's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Xenophobia

novi's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

This is the slowest agatha christie's book I have ever read. It started being really intriguing but then it became consistently redundant. There are ramblings spread all over the book about the same stuff. Usually I'm annoyed with Miss Marple, but I actually quite like her in this one and I kinda ship her with Professor Wanstead. But the writing and the editing really could be better. And don't even let me started on the sexism, the xenophobia, and the victim blaming in this book. Reading this book is SO SO SO SO tiring.

The plot is alright, but I have a question:

what took Mr. Rafiel so long to investigate it? Like suddenly Miss Marple is his last resort, even if he knew that her success was clearly not guaranteed. Miss Temple I could understand, because she didn't really get the immediate effect of the whole affair, although it's a lot of coincidence too that Miss Temple decides to go on her "pilgrimage" at the same time as Mr. Rafiel's investigation (via Miss Marple). And I definitely think Miss Marple could solved the mystery sooner if Mr. Rafiel just told her what the mystery was after she accepted it?? So why we have to be here. Why.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death and Gore

Minor: Rape

hopereads_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia