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A review by amrita_yadav
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
4.0
I loved the style of writing in this. To the facts, to the point and yet so tragically romantic, with obviously muder on the side. Was the twist a very smart, unforeseeable and shocking one? Not really. It was the twist that gave the solution and nothing more. I know it, I think Agatha Christie knew it, thus, in turn, Hercule Poirot also knew it.That would obviously be the case if writing something different was the point. And I think it was.
Usually, Agatha Christie runs multiple mysteries simultaneously, to create confusion, of course, but it also provides something for the characters to do. Everyone has an interesting, unique statement and reaction since everyone is hiding something or are worried about something. Someone meets someone, someone else encounters something suspicious, someone else does something really objectionable, not murder, but suspicious nevertheless. In the end Hercule Poirot has bested everyone with his grey cells and psychology and the innocent is saved again.
This mystery was less mystery and more psychology. It is almost like a view from the other side. The whole picture with Hercule Poirot in it rather than Hercule Poirot and finding out the whole picture. The twist is the twist and it is where it always it. Still I think I couldn't care less about Hercule Poirot's explanation and connecting dots because, again, it just wasn't much about the mystery.
If this wasn't supposed to be a part of mystery novel series then maybe as a different type of work by Agatha Christie, it would have been a five star for sure.
Usually, Agatha Christie runs multiple mysteries simultaneously, to create confusion, of course, but it also provides something for the characters to do. Everyone has an interesting, unique statement and reaction since everyone is hiding something or are worried about something. Someone meets someone, someone else encounters something suspicious, someone else does something really objectionable, not murder, but suspicious nevertheless. In the end Hercule Poirot has bested everyone with his grey cells and psychology and the innocent is saved again.
This mystery was less mystery and more psychology. It is almost like a view from the other side. The whole picture with Hercule Poirot in it rather than Hercule Poirot and finding out the whole picture. The twist is the twist and it is where it always it. Still I think I couldn't care less about Hercule Poirot's explanation and connecting dots because, again, it just wasn't much about the mystery.
If this wasn't supposed to be a part of mystery novel series then maybe as a different type of work by Agatha Christie, it would have been a five star for sure.