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alylew76 's review for:
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Can you like a book that you didn’t read half of? Cause that’s kind of how I’m feeling. I skipped about 100 pages and spoiled myself because I just go so bored.
Magpie Murders was a book within a book. You get to read a murder mystery about a fictional detective named Atticus Pund and then read about the real life murder mystery of the author who wrote the Atticus Pund novels.
I loved the Pund murder mystery. I liked the whole kit and kaboodle. The characters, the murder, the setting; it was all really good. It made me wish that Alan Conway was a real person who had published several books about Atticus Pund. I was enjoying the book up until it switched the real murder mystery of Alan Conway.
I just didn’t want to read about him. I didn’t care. I was already too invested in the Pund plot to care about what happened outside of that. I thought my need to have a conclusion to who killed Sir Magnus would propel me to read or become interested in what was happening but it didn’t. I got bored of Susan and her life. I got bored of how shitty a person Alan was and how many people had the motivation to kill him.
In fact, I don’t know who killed him. I quit reading after the chapter “The Funeral” and skipped all the way to the end to get my closure for the Pund plot. I wasn’t disappointed at all. From start to beginning the Pund murder mystery was a really fun, engaging read. To cut it off abruptly and try to make the reader focus on something else is hard to do and it just didn’t do it for me.
Had the book been just Alan Conway’s Magpie Murders, I would’ve given the book 5 stars. But it had all that other bullshit that I couldn’t force myself to care about. I don’t think I’d recommend this because, at some point, it became a chore to read.
Magpie Murders was a book within a book. You get to read a murder mystery about a fictional detective named Atticus Pund and then read about the real life murder mystery of the author who wrote the Atticus Pund novels.
I loved the Pund murder mystery. I liked the whole kit and kaboodle. The characters, the murder, the setting; it was all really good. It made me wish that Alan Conway was a real person who had published several books about Atticus Pund. I was enjoying the book up until it switched the real murder mystery of Alan Conway.
I just didn’t want to read about him. I didn’t care. I was already too invested in the Pund plot to care about what happened outside of that. I thought my need to have a conclusion to who killed Sir Magnus would propel me to read or become interested in what was happening but it didn’t. I got bored of Susan and her life. I got bored of how shitty a person Alan was and how many people had the motivation to kill him.
In fact, I don’t know who killed him. I quit reading after the chapter “The Funeral” and skipped all the way to the end to get my closure for the Pund plot. I wasn’t disappointed at all. From start to beginning the Pund murder mystery was a really fun, engaging read. To cut it off abruptly and try to make the reader focus on something else is hard to do and it just didn’t do it for me.
Had the book been just Alan Conway’s Magpie Murders, I would’ve given the book 5 stars. But it had all that other bullshit that I couldn’t force myself to care about. I don’t think I’d recommend this because, at some point, it became a chore to read.