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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
It’s as up and down as any collection of Christie shorts, but it owes a lot to how charismatic Tommy and Tuppence are, as well as a more directly serialized approach to the collection. Also, the second Christie book I’ve read to reference her own work! Poirot, in this case. The meta plot thickens!
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-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
Very cute. Tommy and Tuppence are delightful as usual.
Este libro ha sido un trip total: empezó como uno de tres estrellas, evolucionó hasta ser uno de cuatro estrellas y ese final me hizo chillar a las tres de la madrugada, así que obviamente se merece las cinco estrellas.
No sé si es por haberme leído el segundo libro antes del primero, pero al principio me estaba costando un poco seguirle el hilo al asunto y pillar a los personajes. Pero son historias cortas relativamente independientes entre ellas y, no sé, después de la tercera le pillé el tranquillo.
Son historias sencillas de leer y seguir, pero con el toque de Christie en sus plot twist. La única que medio me decepcionó fue la de las gemelas, porque me esperaba esa solución, nada más.
Ellos son entrañables y adoro lo mucho que se nota que se quieren, me hizo especial ilusión el episodio de Navidad en el que se ponen sentimentales. Tuppence es un REINA y la adoro terriblemente, she carries the story on her shoulders and Tommy knows it (and loves her).
Y me resultó muy divertido que pretendiesen imitar detectives famosos cada día, me la imagino como una dinámica muy entretenida y perfecta para ellos. Detallazo que el último relato haya sido con Poirot, por supuesto.
Definitivamente no empecé con expectativas más allá de que fuese entretenido sin más y ha acabado siendo, posiblemente, de mis favoritos de Agatha Christie.
No sé si es por haberme leído el segundo libro antes del primero, pero al principio me estaba costando un poco seguirle el hilo al asunto y pillar a los personajes. Pero son historias cortas relativamente independientes entre ellas y, no sé, después de la tercera le pillé el tranquillo.
Son historias sencillas de leer y seguir, pero con el toque de Christie en sus plot twist. La única que medio me decepcionó fue la de las gemelas, porque me esperaba esa solución, nada más.
Ellos son entrañables y adoro lo mucho que se nota que se quieren, me hizo especial ilusión el episodio de Navidad en el que se ponen sentimentales. Tuppence es un REINA y la adoro terriblemente, she carries the story on her shoulders and Tommy knows it (and loves her).
Y me resultó muy divertido que pretendiesen imitar detectives famosos cada día, me la imagino como una dinámica muy entretenida y perfecta para ellos. Detallazo que el último relato haya sido con Poirot, por supuesto.
Definitivamente no empecé con expectativas más allá de que fuese entretenido sin más y ha acabado siendo, posiblemente, de mis favoritos de Agatha Christie.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
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
I liked the structure of these short stories. Tommy and Tuppence are temporarily running a detective agency and each story is a different case. Best of all, in each story, they follow the methods of a particular detective fiction character. Of course, popular detective fiction characters of 1920s Britain isn't really my strong suit, but it was still fun. Some of the stories were definitely better than others, but throughout, Tommy and Tuppence's interactions were entertaining. If I could do half stars, I'd give this 3.5 stars.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Minor: Xenophobia
Married retired spies Tommy and Tuppence agree to go back undercover one more time as mild-mannered proprietors of a small-time detective agency, for some obscure MI-5 reason. The book is structured as a series of short mysteries as Tommy and Tuppence go into detective mode to investigate, often adopting the methods of various famous book detectives, including Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and a bunch of others I don't know, to comical effect.
I get why people like Tommy and Tuppence; it's refreshing to read a story from this (or any) era with married characters who are fun, and who genuinely like each other, and whose marriage isn't in trouble, and where the woman gets to do things, and the husband doesn't try to stop her.
I just find their antics tiresome. I think it's a tone problem. Mystery/comedy doesn't really work for me as a genre because murder is inherently serious. Agatha Christie books are never really about the seriousness/horror of murder so much as they use murder as a device to create a clever/twisty/cerebral puzzle around, but at least Poirot and Miss Marple can take their crimes seriously, and show occasional depth of feeling.
Any issues with the tone and characters would have been irrelevant if the mysteries were good, but these aren't really. They feel very phoned-in.
I get why people like Tommy and Tuppence; it's refreshing to read a story from this (or any) era with married characters who are fun, and who genuinely like each other, and whose marriage isn't in trouble, and where the woman gets to do things, and the husband doesn't try to stop her.
I just find their antics tiresome. I think it's a tone problem. Mystery/comedy doesn't really work for me as a genre because murder is inherently serious. Agatha Christie books are never really about the seriousness/horror of murder so much as they use murder as a device to create a clever/twisty/cerebral puzzle around, but at least Poirot and Miss Marple can take their crimes seriously, and show occasional depth of feeling.
Any issues with the tone and characters would have been irrelevant if the mysteries were good, but these aren't really. They feel very phoned-in.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
relaxing
tense
fast-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:
No
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-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