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A review by imme_van_gorp
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
4.5
I read this book as if I were participating in some sort of sprint. I turned those pages quickly and without stop. I was invested and needed to know the ending. I think it is mostly the mystery itself that you want to see unfold: you want to understand how it is all being done. And you want to know it as soon as possible, not wanting to wait 'til the end.. but you must: hence the unavoidable quick and non-stop turning of pages.
Everyone involved in the story was really quite interesting and had their own unique characteristics. None were particularly likable, but I did have a bit of a soft spot for one of them, which is funny since I think he was meant to be the one we were mostly led to believe to be the murderer. I, however, never thought this to be the case, and oddly enough, I found him to be quite.. funny and charming. I had begun to form this idle kind of hope to see him survive, yet he unfortunately did die and by the hands of the girl I kind of 'shipped' him with, no less. No happy ending for me.. nor them I suppose.
I must admit that I did have my suspicions for one person quite fast (which in the end turned out to be correct), as in my opinion only one of the ten was truly creepy and appeared to portray some sociopathic tendencies mixed with a lot of narcissism. I won't spoil who the killer was of course, and I won't pretend like I was sure of this person's guilt at all, it was just a gut feeling.
Besides, although I had this gut feeling about the identity of the murderer, how the crimes themselves were actually committed I had absolutely not a clue until they were spelled it out for us in the epilogue. I'm not sure if I find the explanation quite satisfactory as it does lean towards the fantastical, but, although I feel like there must have been quite a few coincidences and luck on the murderer's side, I do suppose this explanation accounts for everything that has happened in the story and is, with a far stretch of the imagination, plausible. And you know, for novels like this, it doesn't need to be realistic. As long as the events described can indeed happen, no matter how improbable, the novel has done its job. Especially if it entices you completely like this mystery certainly does. Very well done.
Everyone involved in the story was really quite interesting and had their own unique characteristics. None were particularly likable, but I did have a bit of a soft spot for one of them, which is funny since I think he was meant to be the one we were mostly led to believe to be the murderer. I, however, never thought this to be the case, and oddly enough, I found him to be quite.. funny and charming. I had begun to form this idle kind of hope to see him survive, yet he unfortunately did die and by the hands of the girl I kind of 'shipped' him with, no less. No happy ending for me.. nor them I suppose.
I must admit that I did have my suspicions for one person quite fast (which in the end turned out to be correct), as in my opinion only one of the ten was truly creepy and appeared to portray some sociopathic tendencies mixed with a lot of narcissism. I won't spoil who the killer was of course, and I won't pretend like I was sure of this person's guilt at all, it was just a gut feeling.
Besides, although I had this gut feeling about the identity of the murderer, how the crimes themselves were actually committed I had absolutely not a clue until they were spelled it out for us in the epilogue. I'm not sure if I find the explanation quite satisfactory as it does lean towards the fantastical, but, although I feel like there must have been quite a few coincidences and luck on the murderer's side, I do suppose this explanation accounts for everything that has happened in the story and is, with a far stretch of the imagination, plausible. And you know, for novels like this, it doesn't need to be realistic. As long as the events described can indeed happen, no matter how improbable, the novel has done its job. Especially if it entices you completely like this mystery certainly does. Very well done.