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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The best thing about an Agatha Christie novel: I never can quite solve them. I love the challenge of trying to figure out who did the bad things (usually murder, but sometimes there’s also theft or kidnapping). I try to puzzle out what happened, but I always seem to miss some little clue that should be obvious. With this one, I did figure out the location of a hidden item, but I totally missed some of the other things that are obvious in hindsight. I sure wish I could just start with hindsight.
The best thing about an Agatha Christie novel: the wonderful snarl of events and motives that become clear when you get them all untangled. There always seems to be a little more than I can keep straight when reading, and this book is no exception. No spoilers, but there are so many things that all tie to one location here… it’s a mess that makes so much sense when you get everything separated out.
I’ll keep reading Agatha Christie’s novels as I do: one or two a year. She has so many, it feels like I can read new ones forever at this pace. Hooray!
The best thing about an Agatha Christie novel: the wonderful snarl of events and motives that become clear when you get them all untangled. There always seems to be a little more than I can keep straight when reading, and this book is no exception. No spoilers, but there are so many things that all tie to one location here… it’s a mess that makes so much sense when you get everything separated out.
I’ll keep reading Agatha Christie’s novels as I do: one or two a year. She has so many, it feels like I can read new ones forever at this pace. Hooray!
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A standard Agatha Christie whodunnit. As always I wasn't able to figure it out myself.
hmmm, mình không thích cách dẫn truyên của cuốn này lắm.
Mình cảm thấy nó hơi rối rối với lại là cảm thấy không bất ngờ lắm với cú twist
Mình cảm thấy nó hơi rối rối với lại là cảm thấy không bất ngờ lắm với cú twist
3.5 stars
The great detective, Hercule Poirot, doesn't even enter into this story until 69% in. And he enters in thanks to the schoolgirl Julia Upjohn. Who, in my humble opinion, should have her own series of detective novels. She is a super clever person, she has the mind for detecting the hidden and unobtrusive. Christie should have done a series with Julia as a detective post-Meadowbank. Anyway, I digress. Back to the actual story.
Meadowbank, a posh girls' school, becomes center stage for a triple homicide. Teachers at the school are being killed off and tensions are high. Miss Bulstrode and Miss Chadwick, the school founders, are distressed at the very negative publicity as well as the baffling murders. Julia and Jennifer are both new to the school this term and while the loss of life is sad they are rather excited at the events that have occurred. Jennifer is wrapped up in improving her backhand and serve while Julia is quietly observing and putting pieces of this puzzle together. It's when Julia discovers the reason for the murders that Hercule Poirot enters the story because she steals away to London to ask for his help.
What does a revolution in the Middle East and a posh girls' school in England have to do with one another? Hercule Poirot arrives to complete the puzzle.
The great detective, Hercule Poirot, doesn't even enter into this story until 69% in. And he enters in thanks to the schoolgirl Julia Upjohn. Who, in my humble opinion, should have her own series of detective novels. She is a super clever person, she has the mind for detecting the hidden and unobtrusive. Christie should have done a series with Julia as a detective post-Meadowbank. Anyway, I digress. Back to the actual story.
Meadowbank, a posh girls' school, becomes center stage for a triple homicide. Teachers at the school are being killed off and tensions are high. Miss Bulstrode and Miss Chadwick, the school founders, are distressed at the very negative publicity as well as the baffling murders. Julia and Jennifer are both new to the school this term and while the loss of life is sad they are rather excited at the events that have occurred. Jennifer is wrapped up in improving her backhand and serve while Julia is quietly observing and putting pieces of this puzzle together. It's when Julia discovers the reason for the murders that Hercule Poirot enters the story because she steals away to London to ask for his help.
What does a revolution in the Middle East and a posh girls' school in England have to do with one another? Hercule Poirot arrives to complete the puzzle.
Hercule Poirot, who is most often always a good read (from my memory of childhood reading) but with strong tones of anti-Muslim, colonialist, and sexust sentiment. Poirot does not appear until the last seven chapters and wraps up the mystery with one very long very dull monologue that seems to come out of nowhere with very little effort on the part of the author to build or weave a story. I found this to be a disappointing book, not a particularly well-written Christie novel and certainly not, with its overtones of colonialism and sexism, an author I will be returning to as an adult who knows better.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes