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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
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:
Yes
The journey was ok, nothing standing out.
The mystery ending was bad, unbelievable, which made it quite disappointing.
The mystery ending was bad, unbelievable, which made it quite disappointing.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Real score 3.67. I’m going to keep trying, it’s just that I can’t get Robert Carlyle out of my head and a tall, lanky red-head in.
written well but ???
content warnings: murder, sex, sensuality
content warnings: murder, sex, sensuality
Another delightful Hamish MacBeth mystery. This is the first in the series, and slightly different from the newer ones I've read. Usually, we follow Hamish around in his daily duties (visiting villagers and dealing with small crimes,)while solving the murder mystery. In Death of a Gossip, we don't see any villagers at all, with the exception of Priscilla and her family. This book centers around a group of strangers who have booked a fishing holiday in the village. The majority of the book is told through this group. We don't see things from Hamish's point of view until towards the end of the story. Most of the usual crew found in the later books are missing here. Still, I did enjoy it and am looking forward to my next Hamish MacBeth adventure.
Last summer, I blew through M. C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series while working on a huge yard project. I decided to give her Hamish Macbeth series a listen this year. I'm found this book really hard to get into. I just don't know if I like Hamish.
Listened to this book the first time. Read it the second time. Slow start, but was better by the end.
I enjoyed the laid-back nature of the story. Seeing as how our modern times are highly stressful, suspenseful, and we are in information overload… This story was able to bring me back to a little bit more peaceful time. Knowing that this book was written in the late 1980s, helps me to remember that our modern ways ( mostly in regards to women) haven’t always been so “modern“…
The story plays out slow and lazily, just how MC Beaton describes the main character Hamish McBeth. And in the way that he uncovers the perpetrator of the mystery, it’s definitely not what were used to in our modern day crime drama storytelling and movies. Life has changed a lot in 40 years… And some of that is simply paying attention to our instincts, versus only paying attention to what a computer tells us. I did have to keep reminding myself of the change in the times.
I enjoyed the descriptions of the location, but not so much the descriptions of people and their personalities of the time. But that’s just the way it was, and has no bearing on how MCB wrote the book.
I will definitely continue to read the series. And now I am curious about the television show about the same character as well.
The story plays out slow and lazily, just how MC Beaton describes the main character Hamish McBeth. And in the way that he uncovers the perpetrator of the mystery, it’s definitely not what were used to in our modern day crime drama storytelling and movies. Life has changed a lot in 40 years… And some of that is simply paying attention to our instincts, versus only paying attention to what a computer tells us. I did have to keep reminding myself of the change in the times.
I enjoyed the descriptions of the location, but not so much the descriptions of people and their personalities of the time. But that’s just the way it was, and has no bearing on how MCB wrote the book.
I will definitely continue to read the series. And now I am curious about the television show about the same character as well.
A quick little Agatha Christie wannabe mystery that spent a lot of time on the back story and then all of a sudden he had it solved with minimal investigation. I don’t think it’s aged well.