Reviews tagging 'Classism'

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

5 reviews

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Car accident, Rape, Death, Infertility, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, Classism, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Death of parent, War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Child death, and Animal death

_alyssar_'s review

emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Rape, Terminal illness, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Classism, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Car accident, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

feebles640's review against another edition

mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Rape, Infidelity, Abandonment, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, and Death

Minor: Child death and War

blancake's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Was Agatha Christie really necessary here?
I think I would enjoy it more if it were about some completely fictional people, especially since some very bold statements were made about and  by real people who still have very much living relatives and offsprings. This made me quite uncomfortable while reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Suicide, Classism, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

archaicrobin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

1.5

While the writing was great and the audiobook was wonderful, I still found this book to be incredibly boring. The Christie Affair is a fictional take on a real life event in which author Agatha Christie went missing for about two weeks before being found at a resort under another woman’s name. 

This novel attempts to explain why Agatha left, what she was doing, and why she came back. Told from the perspective of her husband’s mistress, The Christie Affair tries to humanize the other woman and explain why she’s breaking up the Christie marriage.  The vibes were great, the writing was great, and it touched on the abuses that occurred in Ireland around the early 1920s but despite all these amazing things the book was just so dull to me. 

The twist that people rave about was dumb in my opinion and while I love reading about this time period, the story was just too slow to keep me interested. I had to switch the audiobook to twice the speed just to finish it. 

The Christie Affair was another Reese’s book club pick that fell short for me. If you’re a huge Agatha Christie fan or really like king drawn out time period dramas with very little mystery this one might interest you, but for me it was a let down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Misogyny, Murder, and Pregnancy