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The Hollow by Agatha Christie
emotional
mysterious
reflective
5.0
John Christow has it all: a family, a career, a mistress; but he’s still not happy. Then, on a weekend trip, he ends up murdered. Luckily, Hercule Poirot is on the scene!
The most memorable moment in this one is definitely the discovery of the body. The reveal at the end felt anticlimactic, but by that point, the revelation of whodunnit wasn’t nearly as important as where the characters ended up. There was such a tangle of relationships! I found that part of the ending satisfying enough.
You can really tell Agatha Christie did not want Poirot in this one. It feels more like her other books, shifting POVs and focusing on the interpersonal relationships of the suspects. Poirot himself isn’t in it much at all. :(
There are a few conversations from this book that will stick with me. I’m sure I’ll be thinking about this book for the rest of my life.
“Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.”
The most memorable moment in this one is definitely the discovery of the body. The reveal at the end felt anticlimactic, but by that point, the revelation of whodunnit wasn’t nearly as important as where the characters ended up. There was such a tangle of relationships! I found that part of the ending satisfying enough.
You can really tell Agatha Christie did not want Poirot in this one. It feels more like her other books, shifting POVs and focusing on the interpersonal relationships of the suspects. Poirot himself isn’t in it much at all. :(
There are a few conversations from this book that will stick with me. I’m sure I’ll be thinking about this book for the rest of my life.
“Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.”