Reviews tagging 'Racism'

A Haunting in Venice: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie

7 reviews

thequeendavina's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book is a little bit of a stretch in my mind, while I correctly guessed whodunnit I felt like some of the details were a little far fetched. A cozy HP mystery.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Murder

emilywemily6's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Reading this book made me want to read more complex mystery stories like Christie’s work, but this book has some downfalls. The dialogue was very repetitive and contained a lot of tasteless assumptions that were common during the time period. But people went on and on about how delinquent the youth of the day were and how mentally unstable people were roaming the streets because asylums had no space and blaming all the murders on one or the other population. It was tedious, insensitive, and happened so often throughout the book. I also felt like the pacing was generally slow but consistent until the last 30 pages when the story ramped up and then you were still learning facts about the mystery on the last page of the book. It ended too abruptly for me. I love how all the details came together, especially all the scapegoats and red herrings, but the story itself had a lot of filler in the form of insensitive and ridiculous comments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Grief

daniellekat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

Not my favourite. I found this predictable and over repetitive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Blood

Drowning

rhiannon814r's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

This was my first experience reading a Christie novel and I’m so disappointed. I hope others are better. With the author’s renown, I was hoping

the killer wouldn’t be the person who was established to have motive, means, and opportunity in the first few pages,

but unfortunately it was. You could read only the first few and last two chapters of this book and it wouldn’t take away from the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

scottyreadsstuff's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Well this was certainly fun!! This was the first Agatha Christie novel where I was remotely right about anything, so I don’t know how to feel about that 😅 Not her best mystery but still a good festive read for spooky season! :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

fanboyriot's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I picked this up at random but honestly didn’t really care for it.  There was detailed settings immersing you into the world but there was no character development, the overall plot fell flat, and it was incredibly misogynistic.  There were also some terms through I that I didn’t like and while it might have been published 2001 it’s still pathetic.  Honestly, I was just waiting for it to end.  I only finished it out of spite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Body horror, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was such a slog.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse