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Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

Benjamin Stevenson

3.94 AVERAGE

zw00875's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging funny mysterious fast-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

scamp314's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I wasn’t as entranced by this book as the first one, but it was a lot easier to follow

kathrynjean97's review against another edition

5.0

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So I'm writing again. Which is good news, I suppose, for those wanting a second book, but more unfortunate for the people who had to die so I could write it.

Dare I say... this was even better than the first one?

Everyone on This Train has all the things I loved about Everyone in My Family, but with a setting that I personally found even more intriguing: the 50th Australian Mystery Writers Society festival held on The Ghan. Having a bunch of bickering authors as the primary cast and having so many clues involving writing and publishing is right up my alley!

Once again, Stevenson (or should I say, Cunningham) lays out ground rules for himself and the reader and weaves them into the story as a literary device; it's just such a fun inclusion and such good use of first-person narration! I love the returning cast members, few as they may be, and the progression of Ernie's story and I love that this was surprisingly heartfelt!

As for my issues from the first book, none of that here; the pacing never lulls and the clues all line up bloody perfectly.

5.0 🎙️
→ single narrator

FAVOURITE QUOTES

Silence is a tap left running: it fills and fills until it overflows and becomes insurmountable.
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A bunch of writers in a room requires a collective noun that the English language doesn’t have. A condolence, perhaps. A sympathy. It’s a war hospital for the written word.
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It’s not the writing that tells the story, it’s the reading.
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"You wouldn't understand. I want to be known for the art I made, for my words and my voice, not for the mark some man left on me."
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