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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
Twisty with a sucker punch at the end. Just kidding! An homage to Agatha Christie with lots of convoluted plots and so many details you should be noting. Also another book within a book format. Everything I've read by Anthony Horowitz has been solid and enjoyable. I will certainly look for the next book in this series.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Another fun mystery from Anthony Horowitz, containing an entire second book written by a fictional (and now dead) character inside the main book. It takes some brain work to keep straight all the real (fictional) characters and the fictional characters based on them, not to mention the two sets of murders. Bonus points for a smart and competent middle aged protagonist.
Not sure if there will be a book three but I'll read it if there is!
Not sure if there will be a book three but I'll read it if there is!
challenging
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
No Magpie, but still fun
Fiendishly clever, brilliantly constructed, beautifully written. Just read it.
Such fun to find a book within a book here! Having read (and watched) Magpie Murders, I enjoyed the meta quality of the created character Atticus Pund. Here it was a delight to get to read a whole book about Atticus Pund in the course of investigating a missing person and an 8 year old murder. I also enjoyed that the editor became the investigator here. Very clever and very enjoysble.
I gave up at the start of the book within the book. If anyone would like to DM me who the murderer was, I am curious...but not enough to finish.
This felt like there was no heart put into the writing or the story. Ryeland is not that interesting of a detective or character and her very tenuous/ridiculous reason for investigating a potential murder sours the story from the start. She begins the book weary of her life in Crete, her husband, etc. That weariness spilled over into the whole mystery and I felt like Horowitz was weary of Atticus Pund and Susan Ryland, and possibly writing this series.
I am clearly the outlier here, but the whole project felt flat to me.
This felt like there was no heart put into the writing or the story. Ryeland is not that interesting of a detective or character and her very tenuous/ridiculous reason for investigating a potential murder sours the story from the start. She begins the book weary of her life in Crete, her husband, etc. That weariness spilled over into the whole mystery and I felt like Horowitz was weary of Atticus Pund and Susan Ryland, and possibly writing this series.
I am clearly the outlier here, but the whole project felt flat to me.
Absolutely fantastic, a whodunnit inside a whodunnit! As if one alone to solve isn't hard enough.. The prose are on point, the characters are incredibly well built and i was sucked into the tale right from the start. If you're a fan of any mystery , whodunnit yarns old or new then i can't recommend this highly enough. Horowitz has managed something incredibly special with this novel and you'll see exactly why when you read it.