5.0 out of 5 stars
I stayed up, on a weeknight, until 1 to finish this!, July 7, 2011
This review is from: And Then There Were None (Mass Market Paperback)
I stayed up, on a weeknight, until 1 to finish this!
Ten people are invited to Soldier Island to stay at the home of Mr. Owen. But little do they know, a little justice is about to be served. Who will die next and can they find the killer before the next one dies?
Oh. My. God. This book was frakkin' amazing. I have never been so afraid to go to sleep in my life. I have never had as crazy dreams as I've had when reading this book. I have never stayed up so late on a weeknight finishing a book because I knew it would haunt my dreams and dammit, I had to know who was the murderer!
If you peruse through many of my book reviews (specifically the ones of thrillers), you will see the complaint: "This was a thriller?!" In my opinion, a thriller should be pulse-pounding, look over your shoulder, frantically turn the next page, stay up late into the night finishing the damned book. Basically, everything that this book IS.
The characters were varied. Sure, they were all sorts of 1930's stereotypes (but the offensive n-word and "Indians" were dropped from the title/poem), but they were real, from the religious zealot, Miss Brent, to the slimy captain Lombard, to the officious Justice. I was surprised at how attached I grew to each character (much more than in some more serious character novels I've read), and there were people I desperately hoped to avoid dying.
And then we have the mystery, the reason you even read this novel. Oh. My. God. (Damn, this novel has elicited TWO slow-mo OMG's from me!) It is slick, it is crafty, it is interesting, and I TOTALLY didn't see it coming. Every word is a puzzle, a puzzle that you twist and turn and when you finally read the end, you go, "Ah ha, so that's how it was done!" Christie says in the author's note how much work it was and how proud of it she was, and I must say, she should be. I've not read a novel that surprised me like this one ever.
I loved the mood of the novel. I was constantly looking around in my bedroom (at night, big mistake, as I had wickedly weird nightmares one night) as if a murderer would pop out of nowhere. And I totally feel that this should be more prevalent in thrillers.
This novel blew my mind, even more than my previous favorite Christie novel, "Murder on the Orient Express". I highly recommend you stop reading my review and hunt down a copy for yourself, so you can start reading!
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