Richard Dawson
To mention this in the same breath as Agatha Christie is offensive and wrong.
There is no suspense or intrigue, with the stagnant plot not really kicking into action until halfway through. The twists were perfunctory and the predictable structure turns every character spotlight into a death warrant. Without any spoilers, the reveal at the end was so obvious I had written it off as a red herring. I thought instead that the epilogue might have one last twist, but instead it was superfluous.
A stronger nod towards Cluedo with the different coloured bedrooms and outfits could have been fun, but instead we are left with cartoonishly flat characters, cobbled together from clichés. I would have been happy with a dumbed-down And Then There Were None for a quick fun read, but I just felt like I had wasted my time and money by reading this.
To mention this in the same breath as Agatha Christie is offensive and wrong.
There is no suspense or intrigue, with the stagnant plot not really kicking into action until halfway through. The twists were perfunctory and the predictable structure turns every character spotlight into a death warrant. Without any spoilers, the reveal at the end was so obvious I had written it off as a red herring. I thought instead that the epilogue might have one last twist, but instead it was superfluous.
A stronger nod towards Cluedo with the different coloured bedrooms and outfits could have been fun, but instead we are left with cartoonishly flat characters, cobbled together from clichés. I would have been happy with a dumbed-down And Then There Were None for a quick fun read, but I just felt like I had wasted my time and money by reading this.