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aliciagriggs 's review for:
Hallowe'en Party
by Agatha Christie
This book was okay, nothing less and nothing more. I thought, being October, it was an apt book to read. However, as I found with other Poirot novels that included the Ariadne Oliver character,I didn't like her; quite simply, she annoys me.
I found the plot itself had potential to be very interesting, but it wasn't, not really. I felt a bit bored and wanted to read it quickly, not from delight but from wanting to find out the end and finish.
The repetition about criminals being mentally insane and that there isn't enough room in asylums got tedious. I'm not sure whether it was reflective of the time period Christie wrote in (was this what people though, generally?) Or whether it was designed to make the story scarier?- to put fear into the readers when they considered many people around and about could act perfectly sane but had evil within them that meant they should be in a mental institution. Either way, the constant repetition was boring.
There was good bits to it, after all, it is "okay". A somewhat clever but not entirely satisfying or spectacularly clever ending. Overall, unlike a lot of Poriot novels, I wasn't hooked and was glad to have finished so I could move on. A bit of a "meh" book.
I found the plot itself had potential to be very interesting, but it wasn't, not really. I felt a bit bored and wanted to read it quickly, not from delight but from wanting to find out the end and finish.
The repetition about criminals being mentally insane and that there isn't enough room in asylums got tedious. I'm not sure whether it was reflective of the time period Christie wrote in (was this what people though, generally?) Or whether it was designed to make the story scarier?- to put fear into the readers when they considered many people around and about could act perfectly sane but had evil within them that meant they should be in a mental institution. Either way, the constant repetition was boring.
There was good bits to it, after all, it is "okay". A somewhat clever but not entirely satisfying or spectacularly clever ending. Overall, unlike a lot of Poriot novels, I wasn't hooked and was glad to have finished so I could move on. A bit of a "meh" book.