Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie

12 reviews

readnow_speaklater's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

hue's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

3.0

Not one of Agatha's greatest works. Perhaps my opinion is coloured by the episode/movie I saw of this before, where Miss Marple had been included for some strange reason. I think I wasn't such a big fan of Luke as the driving force and got quite bored of him trying to get to the bottom of Miss Pinkerton's suspicions while also courting Bridget. I liked the episode more though, shame on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, Murder, Car accident, Death, and Violence

painteed_12's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

" Não, não, meu caro, é aí que se engana. Matar é muito fácil... desde que as suspeitas não recaiam sobre nós. E sabe, a pessoa em questão é precisamente, a última de quem alguém suspeitaria! " 

Requisitei este livro e li também porque está a ser feito um filme do mesmo, e adorei! Apesar de não ter o Poirot, temos Luke Fitzwilliam, um ex polícia charmoso que começa a investigar uma série de mortes suspeitas... Mais uma vez, uma maravilha da Agatha Christie! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

kwashington's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This was not my favorite Agatha Christie novel as there was too much to keep track of.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Classism, Mental illness, Child death, and Animal death

erynlasbelin's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Mental illness, Death, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, and Violence

ansatejones's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Child death

poirot's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicide, Animal death, and Death of parent

trekkifulshay's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

lilacs_book_bower's review

mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Christie had me fooled with this one; I didn't guess either of the reveals at the end.  It moves quickly and it is clever.  Unfortunately, the two main characters fall pretty flat for me, and no one else gets more than a scene or two, so there is not a lot to hold on to.  I think the book should have been longer and had more time for the characters to breathe.  Luke and Bridget are apparently passionately in love after about three days, but admit that they don't like each other. (I don't like either of them either.) By the end though, they love and like each other.  Christie has a real issue with instalove in her mysteries.  Characters meet, talk twice, and then get engaged by the end of the book, and usually run off to somewhere in Africa.  The main strength in this one is the mystery's resolution and I would say it is worth checking out for that reason. TW: it's all very vague with references to orgies, but I couldn't tell if there is homophobia in this or if people were down on a character because of the orgies, which women were presumably participating in as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Car accident

kiesa's review

mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Murder, and Homophobia

Minor: Colonisation