1.46k reviews for:

Endless Night

Agatha Christie

3.68 AVERAGE

elenavillan's review

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

clairet386's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sammie98's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rosanne_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aspygirlsmom_1995's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

juliawithmonkeys's review against another edition

2.75

mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

chrissiereads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookishcat23's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

temi_m's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

travelsalongmybookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This months theme for readchristie2023 is greed and I have read Endless Night

‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’

Michael Rogers has dreamed of a perfect house and a rich beautiful wife. He found the girl and they built the house at Gipsy’s Acre but there is a curse on it. People have died and death comes hunting at Gipsy’s Acre once more.

‘There’s trouble, black trouble waiting for you. Forget you ever saw this place. I’m warning you.’

This one is creeping, menacing and feels much darker than Christie’s usual fare. The theme of greed is brilliantly executed with everyone seemingly after poor ‘sweet delight’ Ellie’s money.  There is a lurking danger and threat at every turn. There are one or two clues when you go back through the book to figure out what is happening but I was enthralled by this one and read it in one sitting! Originally I was thinking Poirot would appear at some point - he doesn’t - it does not suffer for the lack of a detective figure though and Christie shows her real prowess as a writer in this one. She writes an excellent psychological thriller with an absolutely horrific surprise at the end which is quite devastating. 

Thrilling perfection