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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
Really quite a racy novel for ol' Agatha Christie, with strong language, too.
Creative and different than her usual formula, and more like a thriller than a mystery.
Creative and different than her usual formula, and more like a thriller than a mystery.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is no cozy mystery - the end is genuinely creepy!
"Endless Night" starts as a class inequality tale à la Maupassant or Zola - story of a working class boy meeting and marrying a wealthy innocent girl; trying to build a life together against the odds.
For a solid 70% of the novel, it seems to be an intimate story about the world of this girl's immense wealth, usually unknown to the common citizen, and the boy suffering with lack of boundaries from their surroundings. He just wants to marry her, right? Why is everything so complicated? A few strange things happen, but overall a rather dull domestic story & social commentary for Agatha Christie... Until death happens.
And when death happens, everything unfolds gloriously. As one of her last novels, one could read this as a conclusion to her career - for all those murders she portrayed, what do we know about the killer? What does it mean to kill? Why are we so drawn to death?
For a solid 70% of the novel, it seems to be an intimate story about the world of this girl's immense wealth, usually unknown to the common citizen, and the boy suffering with lack of boundaries from their surroundings. He just wants to marry her, right? Why is everything so complicated? A few strange things happen, but overall a rather dull domestic story & social commentary for Agatha Christie... Until death happens.
And when death happens, everything unfolds gloriously. As one of her last novels, one could read this as a conclusion to her career - for all those murders she portrayed, what do we know about the killer? What does it mean to kill? Why are we so drawn to death?
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
fast-paced