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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Disappointing.
Repetitive dialogue. I kept losing interest.
Definitely not one of her best works.
Repetitive dialogue. I kept losing interest.
Definitely not one of her best works.
I’d call Agatha Christie anything but formulaic, but unfortunately this book was exactly that. Every character was the same and had the same thoughts on the murder, which made it very predictable by the end. Unfortunately not Poirot’s best adventure.
dark
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:
Complicated
- I would say this my least favorite yet of Agatha Christie’s novels out of the ones I have read (And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient eExpress, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.) I picked it up because I saw that ***A Haunting in Venice*** was partially based on it, and love going into movies having read the books they are based on. As is usual for a Hercule Poirot novel, we have his eccentrities featured alongside his order and method in uncovering clues and murderers. In this case, a young girl Joyce, is murdered at a Halloween party aftet boasting that she once witnessed a murder. No one took her seriously at the time, but clealry, there has to be a link to the past? Poirot then has to research all past unsolved murders to try and find the link all while interviewing all who were present at the party.
- What failed to click for me with this mystery, was Agatha’s insistence of continually bringing up people with mental health problems, as would be expected from that period, in a very insensitive way. It was just a reminder of one of the pitfalls of reading books written decades ago. And then, I don’t think this was one of her most brilliant mysteries as I was able to figure out half the story. And the other half that didn’t click for me, I wasn’t even mad at, because I found the explanation to be too absurd and farfetched. Like, huh? I just didn’t believe it. Especially the antics at the end.
- So yeah, not much to say apart from the fact that I think it wasn’t one of the best whodunnits she has ever come up with, and the motive at the end felt a little too ridiculous to me.
- What failed to click for me with this mystery, was Agatha’s insistence of continually bringing up people with mental health problems, as would be expected from that period, in a very insensitive way. It was just a reminder of one of the pitfalls of reading books written decades ago. And then, I don’t think this was one of her most brilliant mysteries as I was able to figure out half the story. And the other half that didn’t click for me, I wasn’t even mad at, because I found the explanation to be too absurd and farfetched. Like, huh? I just didn’t believe it. Especially the antics at the end.
- So yeah, not much to say apart from the fact that I think it wasn’t one of the best whodunnits she has ever come up with, and the motive at the end felt a little too ridiculous to me.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
medium-paced
Not my favorite so far by Agatha Christie but it was still a fun ending. Beginning was pretty slow though.
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No