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okelay 's review for:
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
My first tommy and tuppence novel and I really enjoyed it!
I liked how there was mystery upon mystery upon mystery and how some twists were super obvious and for like the half novel if you've got any brains you're suspicious of these two characters until you get to the end and realise tommy had been too. that was fun, how the story keeps you on your toes, others make it almost impossible to find out but this one wants you to think, to be suspicious of them without making it clear how's the actual guilty party.
it was very quick read, a little over 200 pages so it doesn't take very long to read.
I got home today,feeling anxious and I was thinking if I should catch up on some tv shows when I saw the novel on my nightstand and decided a few hours lost in a christie novel sounded much better.
I don't know why exactly but when I think of her novels,despite the murder,the mysteries,the violence, there's still something reassuring about them.
perhaps it is that in the end the bad guys are captured and disaster averted. or maybe it's the idea that in her stories the world carries on, the cops shown are good, our heroes are lucky and usually find help, there's definitely idealism there, in most of her novels they show good people, who try to help and do the right thing even when it's not convenient or safe or any of those things.
maybe that's why theyve endured so much. they provide hope in the end.
I liked how there was mystery upon mystery upon mystery and how some twists were super obvious and for like the half novel if you've got any brains you're suspicious of these two characters until you get to the end and realise tommy had been too. that was fun, how the story keeps you on your toes, others make it almost impossible to find out but this one wants you to think, to be suspicious of them without making it clear how's the actual guilty party.
it was very quick read, a little over 200 pages so it doesn't take very long to read.
I got home today,feeling anxious and I was thinking if I should catch up on some tv shows when I saw the novel on my nightstand and decided a few hours lost in a christie novel sounded much better.
I don't know why exactly but when I think of her novels,despite the murder,the mysteries,the violence, there's still something reassuring about them.
perhaps it is that in the end the bad guys are captured and disaster averted. or maybe it's the idea that in her stories the world carries on, the cops shown are good, our heroes are lucky and usually find help, there's definitely idealism there, in most of her novels they show good people, who try to help and do the right thing even when it's not convenient or safe or any of those things.
maybe that's why theyve endured so much. they provide hope in the end.