Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

30 reviews

passionatereader78's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

What a twisted tale of love! What does a woman do when her husband leaves her for his mistress? She disappears and uncovers a horrible past act that has impacted her future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, War, Sexual violence, and Torture

amhadley's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I love a morally ambiguous narrator (to the point where you're questioning their reliability!) and some 4th wall breaking. This book gripped my attention from the jump and didn't let me go until I finished. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Suicide

fabs2510's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Infidelity

Moderate: War, Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Self harm

Minor: Infertility, Death of parent, and Death

raemow's review

mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, War, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicide, Rape, Child death, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Murder

frantically's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

This would've been so much more fun without Agatha Christie. Sorry. Nan's story was so well-written and just deserved its own place, especially in this climate, where we're more openly talking about the horrible things that have happened due to organized religion. The "historical" details of what happened to the Christies always took me out the story and didn't really fit within the plot, in my opinion. I got really into it at the end but the writing was a bit confusing at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, War, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment

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

delphic's review against another edition

2.5

This book had been an anticipated release so i had high hopes, unfortunately it did not deliver. The POV character was the mistress of Agatha Christie's husband, a real person, however she was essentially a fictional character in this story. Her name had been changed as had her backstory, adding an unnecessarily tragic backstory that was, however, crucial to the plot as it had been written. The book follows the 10 days Agatha Christie spent missing, a time she never spoke of. I knew the events would be fictional as no one knew the story, I was not expecting the story to centre so closely around so many other fictional events and characters making me wonder why this had been centred around Christie in the first place. Had this been an entirely fictional Historical Fiction book i would not have minded it as much. 
The only real issue i had that isn't connected to the problems caused by using real people was the faux omniscient and thus unreliable narrator of the POV character. It was interesting if annoying, would have preferred a simple POV change rather than acting like the POV character somehow knew all of this was happening and what everyone was thinking. I also felt that this book never truly explored the various trauma's held within to the extent it shoudl, merely using them as set dressing, character motivations and pieces. in the mystery. 
Overall, not a story i would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

kaylamoran's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a 5 star prediction for me, and it fell so flat.  It never managed to get me to care about the characters, despite all of its efforts.  It's not bad per se but I'm extremely disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, War, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

cerizeseries's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death, Murder, Infidelity, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault