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So Many Steps to Death

Agatha Christie

3.54 AVERAGE

gh0st0fth0ught's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

If I read ‘must escape’ one more time…
I think I’ve read quite a bit of Agatha Christie to predict a few things that could happen in them.

bookwormkm's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

Enjoyed following the adventures of this reluctant newbie female spy. Surprisingly timely for today’s current political climate.

“We’ve got to have world peace, world discipline, world order.

Is it possible? Can it be got?

Anything’s better than the muddle we live in, don’t you agree to that?

… Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn’t muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that’s imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty human beings than a world of superior robots who’ve said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.”

Such an interesting exchange between the communist and the main character, Hillary.

Later, Hillary says, “it is not a new world you want to create. It is destroying the old one you will enjoy.”

Explores liberty, idealism, realism, and disillusionment.

Note - suicidal ideation.

laraleest's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

christinevellis's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging 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

neferetri's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mary26's review against another edition

5.0

This is a different type of Christie. It's not a Marple or a Poirot nor does it have a cosy murder at it's heart. I enjoyed it. The heroine Hilary was well drawn and believable. She had a back story that was enough to understand her motivation. It's all based around 'brains' going missing from around the world. Are they defecting to 'the other side' or is something else behind it?