My Quick Takes:
- 4.75/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre 📚 murder mystery
- Language 🤐 mild, Gods name in vain
- Spice ❤️🔥 none
- Content 🤔 murder, racism
This was my very first Agatha way back in 7th grade. I didn’t remember anything and reread it again for book club! Can absolutely see how she mastered the closed circle mystery with this title, the plotting is pure genius.
At around 60% I was looking up question ideas for book club (I’m one of the hosts) and spoiled the plot for myself. That hampered my reading experience, but somehow SHE STILL GOT ME in the end, even after I saw a spoiler. IYKYK.
I’ve been reading through her hercule poirot series in order, and this book had absolutely none of the jovial, quick witted remarks that her Poirot titles contain. It was so bleak and no one had any hope. In the end it really made me stew on the fact that we all deserve death. We are all dead in our sins and deserve death. But God.
Ephesians 2:1-10 says:
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
I think the bleakness of the plot paired with spoiling the plot for myself is what is keeping me from truly deciding on a star rating for this novel. I listened to the audio by Dan Stevens which I thought was successful, but I prefer Hugh Fraser 👌🏼
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