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ninahuynh's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
5.0
Current read rating (June 2024): 5/5 stars
As I was re-reading this book, I realized how and why I enjoyed it the first time I read it, and is enjoyed by many. Agatha Christie is crafty with her words and cunning in creating sneaky characters. This time around, I was more focused on who's next as I flip back to that first page with the rhyme.
With the soldiers going missing or getting broken as each person is killed off, I was imagining it like a spy movie of sorts, the culprit hiding in the walls and behind hidden doors throughout the house xD
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Previous read rating: 5/5 stars
As I was re-reading this book, I realized how and why I enjoyed it the first time I read it, and is enjoyed by many. Agatha Christie is crafty with her words and cunning in creating sneaky characters. This time around, I was more focused on who's next as I flip back to that first page with the rhyme.
With the soldiers going missing or getting broken as each person is killed off, I was imagining it like a spy movie of sorts, the culprit hiding in the walls and behind hidden doors throughout the house xD
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Previous read rating: 5/5 stars
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Gaslighting, Death, Alcohol, and Murder
Moderate: Violence, Car accident, Blood, and Child death
tessa_specchio's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
my favorite agatha christie i think the story is great, the characters aren’t loveable (even though you feel bad for them) but that’s the whole point, perfect amount of mystery and clues
so so much fun to reread, you’ll catch new details
so so much fun to reread, you’ll catch new details
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Racism
egurgens's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
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? Yes
4.5
I honestly had no idea who the killer was until the very end of the epilogue. Ten people are invited to this mysterious island by a U.N. Owens, for different reasons. The doctor was to attend to the owner's wife's health. One was hired for a job. The one thing all of the characters have in common is that they are all guilty of murder, but cannot be convicted by the law. Following the pattern of deaths laid out by a children's poem, one chokes to death, one never wakes up, one went crazy, one was cut by an axe, one was stung, one was in trouble with the law, one fell for a red herring, a bear killed one, another freaked out and was killed, and the last went mad and killed themselves. There were only 10 people on the island, and all of them are dead by the end. However, the last person kicked over a chair to kill themselves, and the detectives found the chair upright, standing orderly by the wall. So who could have killed everyone? There was no place to hide from the inhabitants, and no one was left alive on the unreachable island when the detectives showed up. So who could have killed them? The only person who was truly innocent of the supposed murder they committed and wanted to take justice into their own hands.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide, and Violence
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