Reviews tagging 'Death'

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

20 reviews

adventurouspotato's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

turidt's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Colonisation and Classism

m_a_j's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Racism

neverlandpages4's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, and Classism

andrealinia's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Blood

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Book twenty-five of my personal read through of Agatha Christie in (American) publication order.

While the tone was still on the cozier side, as you would expect, the structure of this one screamed thriller to me. The murder didn't happen until after ramping up the tension a bit, and once it did it was clever locked room type mystery. (I had some suspicion about where the red herrings lay, but that probably just means I read it as a teen and slightly remembered it from then...)

Definitely recommended if you like Agatha Christie but want a change of pace from her cozier and more English feeling stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Suicide

bookishbutterfly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

lydiaaa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Welp, I knew it. I didn't know how or why, but I had a feeling about who. I also found the narrator a little annoying. Who doesn't want to be on an archeological dig in the thirties!! But anyway. A solid Agatha.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, and Murder

sunny_not's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.5

As always a quick and fun read. However, after reading so many of her books it has become easier to guess the killer. At one point I was like "it would have been better if

Dr. Leidner was the killer" and indeed he was. I really hated the way that he killed Miss Johnson it was too brutal and not like the deaths in her other books.

There were many of its time elements so that did make this less enjoyable but overall I liked it just not as much as some other books from her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

michela_ognibeni's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder