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thenovelbook 's review for:
Endless Night
by Agatha Christie
A well-written “mystery,” but so dark by the end that I just wanted to close it up and forget it.
In this late-career book, Agatha builds VERY slowly and also reuses a trick. She does so competently enough, but at the same time it’s ridiculously easy to see through if you know what she’s done along these lines before.
I guess if you like True Crime podcasts or something, you might find this interesting? I didn’t like it. It’s serious and heavy and tonally bleak.
To be fair, I should note that this is one of the things that makes Agatha Christie so interesting as a writer… she can do the full range from comedy to nihilism. And I think that’s weird, but interesting. I just don’t like things that land too far on the bleak side.
In this late-career book, Agatha builds VERY slowly and also reuses a trick. She does so competently enough, but at the same time it’s ridiculously easy to see through if you know what she’s done along these lines before.
I guess if you like True Crime podcasts or something, you might find this interesting? I didn’t like it. It’s serious and heavy and tonally bleak.
To be fair, I should note that this is one of the things that makes Agatha Christie so interesting as a writer… she can do the full range from comedy to nihilism. And I think that’s weird, but interesting. I just don’t like things that land too far on the bleak side.