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aidamaria_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Cultural appropriation, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Alcohol, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Alcoholism, Classism, Sexism, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
daniellekat's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Death
Moderate: Suicide and Misogyny
mydearwatsonbooks's review against another edition
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Blood, Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexism
Mention of Inspector J*ppreadingelli's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs
Moderate: Murder and Suicide
alerasaul0's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Moderate: Medical content, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Racism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
veganecurrywurst's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I much more prefere the Miss Marpel novels, however. Hercule Poirot is intendet to come across as arrogant, but in some cases it's simply annoying.
Contrary to other Agatha Christie books I almost immediatly knew, who the murderer was.
Also this story had to many characters and some of them didn't feel necessary to the plot at all.
Worst of all is the constant racism expressed by some of the characters, which really ruins some chapters and the reading experience. Hopefully newer editions edit it out, as it is in no way important the the storyline and only ruins the book.
I was looking forward to seeing the new movie, until I saw that Armie Hammer was going to be in it, so now I'll watch the older film version, which also looks amazing.
Graphic: Murder, Racism, Death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Suicide, Colonisation, Gun violence, and Alcoholism
alyssagongora's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs
lakea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
Moderate: Death, Murder, and Suicide
Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Racial slurs, and Racism
tomaxhull's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Pros: It carried its themes of class, money, and love pretty well. The clues were largely well-dropped, enough for me to pick up on inconsistencies/hints and vaguely link them in my head so that Poirot could satisfyingly lay the full explanations out for me. Many of the central characters - especially the trio of Linnet, Simon, and Jacqueline - felt flawed, interesting, and real; hard to pull off in a tightly-paced mystery. And of course as in any Christie story, it was a very clever mystery.
Where it went wrong for me: Firstly, the Orientalist racism of the book's setting has not aged at all well, and it was really uncomfortable to read caricatures of Egyptian people who were not treated as actual characters at all.
Secondly, while I liked some of the B-plots, such as that of the Allertons, the Otterbournes, and Cornelia, others were fairly unsatisfactory: Pennington being
My main disappointment, though, was the reveal of the real murder plot:
...And then it turned out that nope, she WAS calculating and ruthless to a terrifying degree? That's what felt a letdown to me... it seemed the narrative had made an effort to get us to sympathise with someone whose actions at times seemed very unsympathetic, and then it said "Actually she IS a totally unfeeling killer"?
Plus just... Okay. the fact the entire thing hinged on Simon being able to sprint like hell across a boat while he's supposed to be grievously wounded, even though he could be spotted (and was), to swiftly murder his wife, and then run back and actually shoot himself in the leg before anyone comes back? A wound that could become pretty serious because you're several days away from a hospital? That's. Like. If you were going to pre-plan a murder THIS elaborately then SURELY you'd make a sturdier plan than this? Very weird contrivance. And if they're this nonchalant about shooting people who get in the way then I feel like they'd just shoot Poirot lol. He at least still proves much more likeable than Sherlock Holmes though.
...Still, it's 2:30 AM and I stayed up to see how it ended, so that at least tells you it got its hooks into me!
Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs
unknown_reader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs
Minor: Death and Death of parent