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Nel buio by Loreth Anne White

achillespatroclus's review against another edition

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mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

mgrant89's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

swajoed's review against another edition

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3.0

Thingy

Good retelling of the classic Agatha Christie story. Definitely kept me interested. Was a bit disappointed that I was not more surprised with the outcome/who done it.

proudlocks's review against another edition

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4.0

Really enjoyed it!!! would read.

holyheadharpie's review against another edition

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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

4.25

donnamallery's review against another edition

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5.0

If you haven’t already, check out this author! She is an excellent writer with very descriptive details. All of the books I’ve ready by her so far have been 5 star reads. This book is a spin from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Eight people stranded in the remote wilderness and one by one, there are deaths. It even has a rhyme that details how the participants will die. Is it one among them or a stranger lurking in the shadows. And, then we have an in-depth search and rescue team who are shocked as they find each bread crumb. It was so riveting I read it in one sitting. Highly recommended!

gbixler80's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • 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


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margot04's review against another edition

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good vacation read. I enjoyed reading this !! it had good twists and turns and developed well. only qualm is when they finally revealed who did what - it made sense but they didn’t really dig into each one. I just felt like it was lacking a little something to really make it believable.

whatjennyread's review against another edition

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2.0

First half is very predictable, then out of nowhere at the original mastermind has a mentor who's the real mastermind and the real killer gets a ton of new backstory that in my opinion doesn't give a believable motive.

Felt as if last minute the author wanted it play out differently then the Agatha Christie novel, but didn't want to go back make edits.

queenalkaia's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5

Was quite disappointed. Started well although slow, took me a little bit to get into it, or I read it slowly I'm not sure.
And then I was gripped from about 20% to 60%. And then it just became suuuuper long again, stretching way too much. Many of Mason and Callie's chapters were very repetitive too.
The ending ended up being underwhelming to me.

I think it would do great as a movie though


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Otherwise the base twist of Stella and the rich guy wasn't really a twist, it was quite predictable... And Deborah wasn't but it was so long it was underwhelming and it all having been her all along because she had this urge to survive just seemed... I don't know almost far-fetched. Yes psychologically the situation can make people act differently and yes she had already killed twice to defend herself although once was when she was an addict. And killing one or two people in self defense or paranoia I can see it, but all that happened? I don't know just felt far-fetched and underwhelming to me.