To me this is the ultimate locked room mystery – ten people isolated on an island, all of them murdered – who did it? How did they pull it off? Agatha Christie apparently wrote this book as a challenge to herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a reader you know that you are being fooled somehow, but how to identify when it happens? And is it the trick fair? In this book I was pleased that the result seemed fair to me. Without giving away the story I was only a little unsatisfied with the fate of the murderer,and wondered if the explanation would truly be so simple to bring about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book contains an epilogue that explains how everything worked, similar to the end of a Scooby-Do episode. Without this I never would have figured it out – all my theories proved incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book was sometimes hard to follow – there are ten people and ten backstories and we peek into each person\u2019s head now and then in seemingly random order, so I was sometimes re-reading to figure out who was thinking what. Luckily as they are murdered things get easier to keep track of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next I am reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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