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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Michael Rogers ontdekt een oud Engels huis dat hij graag had willen kopen, maar waar hij geen geld voor heeft.
opo de dag van de veiling ontmoet hij Ellie Guteman, de vrouw van zijn dromen. Ze leren elkaar beter kennen en trouwen zodra ze volwassen is.
Ellie blijkt schatrijk en koopt het huis voor Michael. Ze breken het af en bouwen een droomhuis. maar dan gebeuren er rare dingen en een oude zigeunervrouw voorspelt slechte dingen.
Het land behoorde toe aan zigeuners en volgens het dorp is het vervloekt. Zullen Mike en Ellie geluk hebben om te overwinnen?
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Boekinformatie:
©1967 AgathaChristie Limited
Endless night
©1986 Nederlandse vertaling A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij bv. Amsterdam
Vertaling: A.L. Spoorenberg
Artdirection omslag: Lambert van Kasteren
Omslagillustratie: Karel Dekker
ISBN: 90.218.3675.0
192 pagina's; paperback
opo de dag van de veiling ontmoet hij Ellie Guteman, de vrouw van zijn dromen. Ze leren elkaar beter kennen en trouwen zodra ze volwassen is.
Ellie blijkt schatrijk en koopt het huis voor Michael. Ze breken het af en bouwen een droomhuis. maar dan gebeuren er rare dingen en een oude zigeunervrouw voorspelt slechte dingen.
Het land behoorde toe aan zigeuners en volgens het dorp is het vervloekt. Zullen Mike en Ellie geluk hebben om te overwinnen?
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Boekinformatie:
©1967 AgathaChristie Limited
Endless night
©1986 Nederlandse vertaling A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij bv. Amsterdam
Vertaling: A.L. Spoorenberg
Artdirection omslag: Lambert van Kasteren
Omslagillustratie: Karel Dekker
ISBN: 90.218.3675.0
192 pagina's; paperback
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
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:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Mike, a young working class lad, meets Ellie, a rich American, and it's love at first sight. The pair marry and build their dream property on land that is supposed to have a gypsy curse on it. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out, but you have to trawl through loads of chapters before you find out how and why. The crime doesn't happen until relatively late in the book.
I liked the dark atmosphere. It's much more sinister in tone than the usual Christie. There are some unusual characters, like the mysterious architect and the scary (but stereotypical) gypsy woman who keeps popping up and uttering threats.
It's quite slow-paced for a Christie and I admit I was bored for a long time, frustrated by the tedious details of the couple's married life. I kept waiting for something to happen and if it had been my first Agatha Christie, I may have given up on it. But I have read enough of her books now to know that things are rarely what they seem to be. When the twists come, they are usually clever ones. True to form, Christie springs a huge surprise. Sometimes I can guess how things are going to turn out but no way did I see this one coming.
I'm glad I stuck with it until the end because once you get there, you realise why you have had to wade through all the other seemingly dull stuff. It's not my favourite Christie but it's still worth reading.
I liked the dark atmosphere. It's much more sinister in tone than the usual Christie. There are some unusual characters, like the mysterious architect and the scary (but stereotypical) gypsy woman who keeps popping up and uttering threats.
It's quite slow-paced for a Christie and I admit I was bored for a long time, frustrated by the tedious details of the couple's married life. I kept waiting for something to happen and if it had been my first Agatha Christie, I may have given up on it. But I have read enough of her books now to know that things are rarely what they seem to be. When the twists come, they are usually clever ones. True to form, Christie springs a huge surprise. Sometimes I can guess how things are going to turn out but no way did I see this one coming.
I'm glad I stuck with it until the end because once you get there, you realise why you have had to wade through all the other seemingly dull stuff. It's not my favourite Christie but it's still worth reading.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-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
dark
reflective
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:
Yes
I enjoyed this book...and I definitely didn't see the ending coming. Perhaps I'm just not astute enough, but I was quite surprised by the twist.
mysterious
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes