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meezan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I was a bit annoyed by the implication that advice to Agatha to put her husband first and let her life revolve around him contributed to the problem. If her husband hadn't been a jerk, and had reciprocated by putting her first in his life, they could have had a perfectly lovely life following this advice. (Well, assuming they'd figured out how to be good parents AND good spouses at the same time, at least.)
Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Moderate: Mental illness and Death of parent
Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Car accident, and Pregnancy
keyareuh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Gaslighting
milliemillz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Moderate: Domestic abuse
chrysanthxmum's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity
Minor: War
backstagekath's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Moderate: Abandonment
giraffestickers's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, and Car accident
stephbakerbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
1.5
And I did not like Gone Girl...
I do like Agatha Christie and the books of hers that I've read (though beware, this book will spoil a few of her books...), so I was interested in this story. And I watched the movie Agatha and the Truth of Murder on Netflix a few months ago, which also gives a fictional explanation for her eleven-day disappearance, and enjoyed it.
But this book was so boring. There is barely a plot, and the mystery is obvious from the beginning. I didn't like any of the characters, and they don't get any development or any real deep-dive into their actions. The ending gives us an info-dump to explain everything that happened previously—a lot of telling and not showing. And then it just ended and I was left thinking, "What was the point of this book?"
It's only saving grace was that it was short.
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Infidelity
Minor: Domestic abuse, Grief, and Death of parent
livvie98's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan, and being so, was very excited for a glimpse into the real life mystery of her disappearance. And while it's certainly an intriguing premise, no real explanation can actually be gathered, seeing as she never revealed what happened during that period of time. Compared to Benedict's other books, I feel like there was less new things for me to learn about Agatha and her life, compared to how much I learned about Hedy Lamarr in The Only Woman In The Room. I understand the scenes in these novels are all fictional, however, I love the usage of them to convey the real events that happened in the lives of women in history. This novel just didn't provide me with the history and new insight I feel I gathered previously from her other works, understandably so, since the majority of this was speculative.
Unfortunately, I found the characters hard to relate to and connect with, but that may have just been me. It was, I thought, a fast paced and quick read that kept me interested until the end.
Spoiler Warning: This book does mention several of her novels and spoils completely my favorite book of hers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. If you haven't read that one yet, please read that before reading this book because it will be entirely ruined.
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse