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A review by justineboots
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
dark
mysterious
sad
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? It's complicated
4.5
I've been on a bit of an Agatha Christie binge. I chose this as the next to read since I learned this would be the next one turned into a movie. The synopsis alone made me wonder why this was chosen. Pretty dark for Hollywood to kill of a 13-year old in the opening act.
Overall it was quite an interesting mystery. I guessed one of the main twists but was quite pleasantly surprised how all the different threads came together. I didn't guess it in it's entirety so it was quite satisfactory. While I didn't guess, everything did come together nicely with sufficient clues having been laid and for Poiroit's explanation being quite clear that most of it made a lot of sense looking back and it was overall cohesive enough to be satisfactory.
MAJOR trigger warnings for (the obvious) child's death, attempted murder of a child but also a lot of ableism directed towards the mentally disabled. Or well, not just them actually, towards anyone they considered mentally disabled at the time (which is far more encompassing than our own definitions). It's not particularly relevant to the plot except as a sort of red herring so I assume it will be done away with in the modern movie adaptation but I can understand how it's difficult to release a book with it edited out.
Overall it was quite an interesting mystery. I guessed one of the main twists but was quite pleasantly surprised how all the different threads came together. I didn't guess it in it's entirety so it was quite satisfactory. While I didn't guess, everything did come together nicely with sufficient clues having been laid and for Poiroit's explanation being quite clear that most of it made a lot of sense looking back and it was overall cohesive enough to be satisfactory.
MAJOR trigger warnings for (the obvious) child's death, attempted murder of a child but also a lot of ableism directed towards the mentally disabled. Or well, not just them actually, towards anyone they considered mentally disabled at the time (which is far more encompassing than our own definitions). It's not particularly relevant to the plot except as a sort of red herring so I assume it will be done away with in the modern movie adaptation but I can understand how it's difficult to release a book with it edited out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism and Child death