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The Agathas. Śledztwo w Castle Cove by Liz Lawson, Wiesław Marcysiak, Kathleen Glasgow

35 reviews

spaghettii's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Definitely left the ending open for more books 👀
Shipped the main characters so hard but I'm thinking they're both straight, unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

hannahs_library_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent and Murder

shaunashares's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

koala595's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence

bookcheshirecat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

“An English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Also known as the bestselling author of all time. Also, one bad bitch.” 

➽ The Agathas is a fun mystery set at Castle Cove, where popular girl Brooke Donovan has just gone missing. The story follows her ex-best friend Alice, who disappeared for 5 days and caused a bit of a scandal. People no longer trust her and Brooke, who was supposed to be her best friend, ended up dating her ex-boyfriend. Like most people at her school, Alice is pretty well-off and has more than enough money to hire a tutor. Iris Adams is whip-smart but from the poor side of town. She's always looking for more ways to make money in order to escape her difficult home situation.

Her father's abusive and even though they got a restraining order, he's still a threat to her family.

I liked seeing Iris' and Alice's unlikely friendship develop, as both of them set out to solve the mystery of Brooke's disappearance and subsequent murder. I loved that they used Agatha Christie's mystery books as inspiration to solve the case. The story isn't fully realistic in parts, but I still had a fun time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment

harrietcarrot72's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I flipping LOVE this book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use, Violence, and Alcohol

Includes an ongoing story with one of the main characters suffering from domestic abuse and also

the victim's dad's girlriend kills her bc she said that her dad was too good for her

also brief mentions of sex and crude language

jessreads17's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense 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? N/A

4.5

A quick, engaging mystery read, The Agathas is a fun book with some enjoyable twists along the way. The main characters are engaging and ones you want to root for. It was a fun book- but if you like your mysteries with a shocking ending that you never saw coming, this may not be the one for you. I didn’t see it coming ahead of time, but that’s the norm for me. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Violence, and Murder

kshertz's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Excellent mystery! I couldn’t guess who did it. I found the two protagonists to be fascinating and I loved them. The story makes sense and there’s so much going on that gets wrapped up beautifully. Highly recommend it as a lighter mystery to try to solve. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

amibo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

bartbarto's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

The book is written from different perspectives, which was a first for me, but after a couple of chapters I got used to it.

The beginning of the book really focused on high school drama, which I didn't really connect with, but once the mystery started going and they started solving the murder it really picked up pace and there were some unexpected plot twists at the end.

The content of the book are in a mixed media format and I sometimes had trouble following  the group texts with more than two people.  I liked that every chapter from Alice's perspective started with a Agatha Christie, which was really in character and sometimes even relevant to the story.


The stories of Agatha Christie only played a minor role in this story, but I think she would've enjoyed reading this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Abandonment