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A review by mo_mentan
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
5.0
this is about the perfect murder mystery.
it is also not a cozy mystery at all, but a terrifying thriller, unlike almost all of christie's novels i have read. it is claustrophobic and cruel.
also i think i once read a summary and thus had an inkling who it was going to be. i wasn't even sure if i hadn't read it before. nevertheless, i was at the edge of my seat the whole time, listening to then end much too late at night when i should long have been sleeping, then imediately downloading a very cozy audiobook so i would be able to sleep.
holy shit.
holy fucking shit.
i can't say i enjoyed it but i can't not give it 5 stars. she really is the queen of mysteries.*
i also noted that one of the short stories in that one book about this mathematician writing crime fiction (which isn't him in the end) was insoired by this. that story stayed with me, too. what was the name of the novel again though? hasn't been long, i just read too many off these and my mind isn't what it was anymore (previously gifted and so on)
*also she was a racist, which didn't show quite as much in my version because it used the ten little soldier boys riddle - plenty colonial attitudes though, anyway (only natives? you fucking shits)
it is also not a cozy mystery at all, but a terrifying thriller, unlike almost all of christie's novels i have read. it is claustrophobic and cruel.
also i think i once read a summary and thus had an inkling who it was going to be. i wasn't even sure if i hadn't read it before. nevertheless, i was at the edge of my seat the whole time, listening to then end much too late at night when i should long have been sleeping, then imediately downloading a very cozy audiobook so i would be able to sleep.
holy shit.
holy fucking shit.
i can't say i enjoyed it but i can't not give it 5 stars. she really is the queen of mysteries.*
i also noted that one of the short stories in that one book about this mathematician writing crime fiction (which isn't him in the end) was insoired by this. that story stayed with me, too. what was the name of the novel again though? hasn't been long, i just read too many off these and my mind isn't what it was anymore (previously gifted and so on)
*also she was a racist, which didn't show quite as much in my version because it used the ten little soldier boys riddle - plenty colonial attitudes though, anyway (only natives? you fucking shits)