Reviews

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Only show reviews with written explanations

ladyseven's review against another edition

4.0

My sister hates Christie's books. So this month she chose two for our buddy read to battle her prejudice. I've been telling her how good Christie's books are, how she always lays all the information clearly so can find who the murder is along Poirot and even then, when the revelation comes it comes as a surprise: our suspect is innocent, we read the clues wrong.

This was the pitch talk that convince her and then she walked to my shelves and randomly picked this one........ Yes, well things didn't go that well for my sister's love of Agatha Christie books. I already knew that the most crucial part of this books was the fact that it had an unreliable narrator and maybe that was the little cheat that helped me find out who the real culprit was. This was my first time being right about who the murder was in a Christie book (and I even partially understood the why! sadly, the How was a lot harder).

Overall an excellent read as usual with this author. I just need to convince my sister to let me pick our next read (did I mention that the second book she almost chooses was And then there were none ? What are the odds? Lol in the end our second book was a conventional Poirot mystery with no plot twist or weird stuff...)

kdahlo's review against another edition

Go to review page

mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I happened to hear the abridged BBC production of this book before reading the full version. I have to say, this is a great one to read, or reread, knowing the solution. The plot is very clever and there are tons of satisfying clues to the solution that you can pick up on when you already know the answer. A neat little mystery.