Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

14 reviews

sarahsss's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Fun mix of realistic historical fiction with a bit of speculation, romance, and mystery thrown into the mix.  It was an odd approach to have your narrator and protagonist be the mistress of Agatha Christie's husband, narrating the real time that Agatha went missing, and yet de Gramont pulls it off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Religious bigotry

Content warnings for religious trauma (Catholic) and gender-based violence and misogyny.

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.25

I’ve always been more interested in Agatha Christie’s real life than her amazing stories. I love the mystery that no one can figure out, and this novel fills in all the gaps in such a mysterious and satisfying way. There is so much love in this book, all wrapped up in mystery and deception. I really enjoyed it, and would like to hope the real life mystery was a lot like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Murder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, War, and Suicide

birtch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Religious bigotry, Violence, Rape, and Child death

abotte's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, War, and Sexual assault

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

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

amsu's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-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? No

4.0

The mystery of the disappearance of Agatha Christie as told by the mistress of her husband. A really good set up for a mystery book.
I really liked this book after getting over the fact that a real life event was fictionalized for this story ( luckily some names were changed)
The atmosphere, characters and even the mystery solved are clearly very Christie-esque, which made the book better.

I also appreciated  what we learned about the life of Archie Christies mistress, which was very tragic but interesting to read about.

The one thing I didn't like about this book was the insta-love aspect that occurred between two characters, but even that was very fitting to some mystery books that Christie wrote

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Medical trauma, War, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Treatment of unmarried women that were pregnant in the 1920s, are described here.

btodd12's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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

People love or hate this book, but I’m in the middle. I don’t care that it is not historically accurate, and I liked how most of the mysteries got resolved in the end. But the alternative timeline stories seemed so wildly unrelated for so long and changed the mood of the book so drastically that I couldn’t even tell that I was reading the same book about Agatha Christie’s disappearance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

beatriks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Not my favorite book, I began to like it more towards the end. The last quarter was quite entertaining. 

The audiobook-version had a bit too much talking with different voices. That is probably a matter of taste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, War, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Child death