Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Agatha Christie

4 reviews

a_alves00's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

steffiraquel's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Antisemitism, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Racism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Kidnapping, Suicide, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

thebakerbookworm's review against another edition

lighthearted 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

3.0

I'm not very familiar with Agatha Christie's original Miss Marple books (I've read more of her Poirot ones) so I can't speak to how these short stories compare to the originals. But, just taking them as twelve short mysteries on their own, they were pretty underwhelming to me. I would only just be getting invested in a mystery when it would be over, the culprit revealed, and we'd be moving on to the next one. Each story had a new narrator, and of course some were better than others (don't even get me started on that very lackluster non-mystery story from some random person's POV; I don't remember who wrote it but let's just say I was annoyed at the end).

I thought this would be a fun book to start October with, but now I'm wishing I'd just picked up an actual Agatha Christie book. *sigh*

Thanks to Libro.fm, Harper Audio, and the authors for my ALC.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Death, and Murder

purplepenning's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Classism, Racism, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Blood, Sexism, Murder, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Colonisation