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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
I still love these characters, but this third episode feels like an off-week. I loved the motivation for pursuing a kind of "normal" murder, the kind that is so well-executed and leaves so little evidence that it looks like nothing at all and is lost to history. But it's hard to get too excited about the dry minutia of English inheritance acts and whether or not someone discussed them with a lawyer.
The plot unexpectedly hits the gas in the final act, and the ending is a genuine blast and a welcome change after the droning info dumps that ended the first two books. Still, I wish some of that excitement could have shown up earlier. Fingers crossed that the next one opens with a dead stranger in a bathtub again.
The plot unexpectedly hits the gas in the final act, and the ending is a genuine blast and a welcome change after the droning info dumps that ended the first two books. Still, I wish some of that excitement could have shown up earlier. Fingers crossed that the next one opens with a dead stranger in a bathtub again.
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
fast-paced
lighthearted
mysterious
Several years ago I tried and failed to read Whose Body?, primarily because I hated it. I don't remember how far I got before putting it down for good but it wasn't far. This was disappointing to say the least, because I'm not ready to re-read all 12,000 Agatha Christies, but I have been feeling the need to read something similar.
Aside from that, people seem to really love Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey and so I could not believe that I didn't. I don't think people usually hate books by mistake, but I guess stranger things have happened, and so I decided to try #3 in the series (having read that it's a big improvement over the first one).
And it is! Here's proof:
Aside from that, people seem to really love Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey and so I could not believe that I didn't. I don't think people usually hate books by mistake, but I guess stranger things have happened, and so I decided to try #3 in the series (having read that it's a big improvement over the first one).
And it is! Here's proof:
"'And Agatha Dawson didn't want to die,' added Parker, "she said so.'
'No,' said Wimsey, thoughtfully, 'and I suppose she had a right to an opinion.'"
I adore Dorothy L. Sayers' writing. I adore Lord Peter Wimsey and Inspector Parker and Katherine Climpson and all the minor characters. I could read them again and again.
An novel take on the mystery by having everyone know the murder basically from page one and what we spend ~250 pages learning how they did it. Still not as good as the first, though. I think Im just going to skip the next one and go straight to the Harriet Vane ones.
I surprised myself by figuring out the mystery very early on. I liked this book. I liked the character of Miss Climpsey.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No