Reviews

Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie

palomasstefani's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

eososray's review against another edition

4.0

I’m pretty sure that in my attempt to read every short story that Agatha Christie wrote I’m getting books that have the same stories. Between the authors own predilection for turning her short stories into novels and the wonderful TV shows I’m starting to lose track of just which stories I’ve read and which ones I haven’t. I’m pretty sure that I hadn’t read all of these yet but every one of them seemed familiar.

chris_hope__'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

3.5

dalicieux's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

iris_adrienne_knight's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

isabellarobinson7's review

4.0

Rating: 4 stars

An actual conversation I had with myself after finishing this book today:

Reading Slump Brain: Wow! We've read only Agatha Christie books this month!
Normal Brain: That's because we've only managed to read two books in April.
RSB: Well, two is better than none!
NB: We have little to no brain power during the day and find it hard to read, that's why.
RSB: We tried our best!
NB: We would've been fine without you. We can read 20+ books a month without you.
RSB: ...
NB: ...
RSB: ...
NB: ...
RSB: We've read only Agatha Ch-!
NB: Oh shut up.

Anyway, in terms of this book, it was a reattempt for me from a couple of years ago and I am ultimately glad I decided to pick it up again. A few stories required a certain suspension of disbelief, but other than that I thoroughly enjoyed reading more Holmes and Watson uh, I mean, Poirot and Hastings. Yeah, I know they are basically copies at the start, but I read Agatha Christie before I started the Sherlock Holmes cannon, so it doesn't really bother me.

isabel_laranjo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

2.75

izzatiidrus's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.0

rach_s's review against another edition

mysterious medium-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

2.0

These stories aren't all bad, but the usual charm of reading them wasn't there. It's probably cause they were short stories that made it boring. In usual Agatha Christie books we get to see the pieces and try to form the picture (failing most of the time), but that's the fun of it. In this book, since its a collection of short stories, most of them were rushed and we don't see all the puzzle pieces. It's more fun to have it all laid out and still be proven wrong, which was the key element missing for me in these stories. 

nov1kowa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing medium-paced

3.5