I really enjoyed this book. I loved that it was a chapter a day till Christmas to find out who the murderer was. I did not expect the murderer or the true meaning of ‘Christmas’ in this book. I was hooked right from the start and it was such a quick, fun and easy read! For a short Christmas special it was great!
funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging funny fast-paced
funny mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

librarydoctor's review

4.0

If you like the other books in the series, you will enjoy this little "holiday special" episode of Ernest's life!
adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Short & sweet. Another amusing installment in this series.

chuaayyy's review

3.0

as per usual with this series, the plot was just so intricate and fascinating. i felt tho the background for it wasn't sufficient as i was confused for most of the book, and when the killer in the end was revealed a literally said out loud "who?!" not because i was shocked but because i didn't know who the character was.
funny lighthearted mysterious 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

Just as fun as Everyone on This Train is a Suspect, but with Christmas theming! The setting kind of did give the same everyone-is-contained feeling as the train, and it was fun trying to puzzle things out along the way—even when I was wrong (I was so certain the
EpiPen
would be important and that somehow
the journalist
would be involved. I did like the inverse of
Murder on the Orient Express: having everyone plan the murder but then actually be innocent in a Knives Out style fake out
.