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Magpie Murders ตั้งแต่ศพแรก แม็กพายเมอร์เดอร์ส
แอนโธนี โฮโรวิตซ์, Anthony Horowitz
3.88 AVERAGE
5.67k reviews for:
Magpie Murders ตั้งแต่ศพแรก แม็กพายเมอร์เดอร์ส
แอนโธนี โฮโรวิตซ์, Anthony Horowitz
3.88 AVERAGE
Mixed bag, this one! Loved the first half, which was the Atticus Pund mystery, and then the second half was Susan investigating, which I was less interested in, and then by the end when they tied both stories together I'd sort of lost enthusiasm. Might have been my mood, though. Just came out feeling a bit blah.
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
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:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
lighthearted
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
Probably more than 3, but less than 3.5, so I'll round down.
The story-within-the-story didn't really work for me as much as I guess it could have, as I found myself not really engaged with the frame narrative, in that I didn't really care much about the murder there. Still, it's well written, and it's fun.
The story-within-the-story didn't really work for me as much as I guess it could have, as I found myself not really engaged with the frame narrative, in that I didn't really care much about the murder there. Still, it's well written, and it's fun.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
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:
No
Friends, I have regrets.
This was advertised to me as a clever meta-mystery. A writer has died (under mysterious circumstances?) after sending the last of his renowned mystery series' books to his publisher and editor. The trouble is that the book appears to be missing the final two chapters that explain who the killer is. The editor (the most boring POV character on earth) is torn between accepting the police's thoughts on the author's death (suicide, plain and simple) and looking for inconsistencies and things that just don't add up or line up too well with the last book.
It is unfortunate that this book is actually two murder mysteries, and they're both underwhelming. The first half of the book contains the author's last book (sans the last two chapters), after which we transition to the "real" world, where the author has died by apparent suicide and his editor is left scratching her head. In the book within this book, we have a village full of people who could have killed the local unfeeling, rich bastard, and we have no history with Atticus, so I'm not emotionally invested in him at all, which makes for a snoozefest of a village murder mystery without a conclusion (for now).
We then follow Susan, who is deeply boring and stupid, into the "real world". I say this because she does a lot of very dull things and has never once questions anyone in her life because there are so many things that freshly come to light about people she has known for decades and even the man she's apparently in love with (spoiler alert: the fact that he is GREEK will be brought up incessantly for no reason. We get it, he's Greek! "Too Greek?" what does this even mean, author?). The reason I call her stupid is because at the 91% mark, she does something so colossally stupid that if I were reading this book in paperback format instead of my Kindle, which I love, I would have flung it out of my house and never picked it up again. For those interested in saving 500 pages of reading time in their lives:Susan confronts the killer, confirms when he asks that she is the only person who knows that he's the murderer, asks him to turn himself in, then tells him she will go to the police if he doesn't by the weekend, and then casually turns her back to him to walk away and SHOCKINGLY he clocks her in the back of the head with the handiest heavy item he can find and proceeds to set the building on fire and leave her to die. I wonder what the editor of mystery novels thought would happen when a murderer is confronted by someone about their crime. .
Anyway, if it were shorter and had some interesting characters, I would have been interested, but honestly, this was a slog and I regret having finished it.
This was advertised to me as a clever meta-mystery. A writer has died (under mysterious circumstances?) after sending the last of his renowned mystery series' books to his publisher and editor. The trouble is that the book appears to be missing the final two chapters that explain who the killer is. The editor (the most boring POV character on earth) is torn between accepting the police's thoughts on the author's death (suicide, plain and simple) and looking for inconsistencies and things that just don't add up or line up too well with the last book.
It is unfortunate that this book is actually two murder mysteries, and they're both underwhelming. The first half of the book contains the author's last book (sans the last two chapters), after which we transition to the "real" world, where the author has died by apparent suicide and his editor is left scratching her head. In the book within this book, we have a village full of people who could have killed the local unfeeling, rich bastard, and we have no history with Atticus, so I'm not emotionally invested in him at all, which makes for a snoozefest of a village murder mystery without a conclusion (for now).
We then follow Susan, who is deeply boring and stupid, into the "real world". I say this because she does a lot of very dull things and has never once questions anyone in her life because there are so many things that freshly come to light about people she has known for decades and even the man she's apparently in love with (spoiler alert: the fact that he is GREEK will be brought up incessantly for no reason. We get it, he's Greek! "Too Greek?" what does this even mean, author?). The reason I call her stupid is because at the 91% mark, she does something so colossally stupid that if I were reading this book in paperback format instead of my Kindle, which I love, I would have flung it out of my house and never picked it up again. For those interested in saving 500 pages of reading time in their lives:
Anyway, if it were shorter and had some interesting characters, I would have been interested, but honestly, this was a slog and I regret having finished it.
This is a fun mystery-novel-within-a-mystery novel book: An editor is reading through the draft of the latest book in a smash series by one of her publisher's most important authors, and discovers that the last few chapters are missing. Shortly thereafter, she hears the news that the author is dead by his own hand. We read the mystery with her, then follow her efforts to find the missing chapters and also discover what led to the author's death. Aspects of the novel find parallels in the author's life, some straightforward, some sinister. Plenty of red herrings are sprinkled in, and as in a Christie novel, many people had reason to wish the dead man dead. It's definitely worth it for those who enjoy the genre.