Reviews with content warning for Grief - Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

A very well constructed mystery that still packs a punch even when you know the "solution". I thought Christie did an excellent job laying out how Poirot figured out that

all of the inhabitants of the train car were connected

- groundwork that's laid as early as the first chapter and with quite a payoff.

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erincorey31's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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jfield351's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

This book was really good! I read it within a few hours on the 18th of February, as part of the dymocks challenge of ‘book with a mystery’. Having watched the movie I already knew the ending but the suspense and intrigue was still there nonetheless. Sometimes i did get the characters confused because there were so many. I was also confused because a lot of French was used and i don’t understand French. It was interesting, well-written and so gripping from the get-go, I just wished I hadn’t seen the movie because then maybe i’d have been even more intrigued and rated it higher. Wow!

The one twist I did not remember, or perhaps was left out of the movie, was that Poirot decided to pretend like someone else did the crime because he realised that justice had been served

. I also don't know how to feel about Poirot's deduction abilities, at times i felt like he was guessing too easily but at other times I marvelled at how smart he was.

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midnightcomets's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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genny's review against another edition

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mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

My second Agatha Christie, and my first Hercule Poirot! I adored Dan Stevens as the narrator. Christie's writing can come across as dry since the focus is on the interrogations and Poirot's ever-so-smug discussions with Bouc and the doctor (there's not as much build-up of the setting/atmosphere); listening to the audio really elevates the experience for me. The accents were so good! As for the mystery itself, I was able to guess the twist but it didn't detract from my enjoyment (I liked it much better than the twist in And Then There Were None). While I understand that Bouc acts like a stand-in for the readers' thoughts, I found it a little ridiculous that he was jumping to conclusions all the time in order to make Poirot look smarter. 😅 It'd be fun to see Poirot brainstorm with someone "on his level", so to speak. I wonder if there are any stories where that happens.

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alisylvi's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

So good! I don’t usually enjoy mysteries but I suppose Agatha Christie is not called the Queen of Mystery for nothing. I did not suspect the ending and my pulse was beating wildly the last twenty pages! This is not my last Christie novel. Very pleasantly surprised!!

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tilo's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This was my very first crime story that I finished. On the first evening, I read 70 pages in one sitting which is not usual for me. It was intriguing, mysterious and entertaining all the way through. Only thing that bothered me a little were the very present gender stereotypes of that time (also in the way it was narrated) but ultimately, it did not keep me from enjoying the mystery.

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elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Premetto dicendo che avevo già letto questo libro mentre ero alle medie e mi ricordavo ancora abbastanza bene il finale.

Essendo al corrente di ciò, sono riuscita a cogliere maggiormente i piccoli dettagli che l'autrice ha abilmente inserito nel corso del romanzo, che messi insieme permetteranno la soluzione del caso. Inoltre, questo libro è un esempio perfetto del modo di fare e dello spiccato talento del detective Hercule Poirot, uno dei personaggi più celebri di Agatha Christie.

L'inizio del romanzo è sicuramente un po' lento e anche di minor interesse, ma l'abilita dell'autrice nello scrivere dell'indagini, e in particolare nell'arrivare all'identità dell'assassino, è quello che rende il libro interessante e coinvolgente.

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