Date started: August 6, 2025
Date finished: August 10, 2025
Rating: 4/5 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Thoughts: OMG! The ending was really good. I felt very interest in the book during the last 45 or so pages. It was so interesting to me that the main character commited the crime, and we didn't even know it because the book was sort of his personal manuscript, and he dictated the narrative we recieved. I also enjoy Ursula's plot twist, and Ralph showing up to explain his side of the story. This book was challenging in a good way, you couldn't zone out while reading it but it also wasn't fully incomprehensible. This was my first Agatha Christie novel, and now I feel inclined to read more in the future.
August 9 | pg 141/213 - Thoughts: This is my first time reading an Agatha Christie novel, so I was excited about it, and it isn't disappointing. I enjoy reading older books that were written before socia media, and this book was written well before then. Yet, it's still not overly difficult to comprehend and follow. I enjoy when mysteries are challenging to read, and this book is perfect for that. I have no clue who murdered Roger, but I'm sure that it isn't Parker and probably isn't Ralph Paton.
Date started: May 21, 2025
Date finished: August 6, 2025
Rating: 2/5 stars ⭐ ⭐
Thoughts: What's the purpose? I didn't love the Inheiritance Games trilogy originally, especially in the later books. I kind of understood the reason behind the first one, and I put up with the second and third, but this just felt completely unnecesary. It was obviously just a cash grab, which is frustrating. It took me so long to read mainly because I read 70% of it on Libby (my first time reading an ebook, maybe my last), but eventually I gave up and checked it out from the library. I didn't understand the reasons behind the two completely different plots, or Jennifer's motive behind writing this. Also, where are Nash and Xavier? We don't get their pov's at all, which felt like purposfully excluding them from the family. I don't like the endings at all either. I truly believe that the only people who enjoy this series are people who are in love with the Hawthorne brothers, so they read it like a horribly written fanfiction.
Date started: July 23, 2025
Date finished: July 30, 2025
Rating: 2/5 stars ⭐ ⭐
Thoughts: Considering some of the other books I've given two stars (cough cough, The Brothers Hawthorne), this probably should've been rated higher. I didn't hate it, it just didn't interest me because it's made for a different age group. I'm trying to force myself to read all the books I own though, starting with ones I got when I was much younger.
Date started: July 30, 2025
Date finished: July 30, 2025
Rating: 5/5 stars ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Thoughts: This book made me rethink my perspective on so many things, including how I thnk of some of my family members. As someone who has a family member who suffers from ALS, and also has a phobia with many types of sicknesses and old age in general, it was a new perspective for me. It was incredibly interesting (I finished it in a day!). It was short, but still got it's point across better than many other longer books have. I think there are actually lots of points made in this book, instead of just one big concept, and many of these concepts brought up are left up to interpretation. This might be confusing for some people (from the bad reviews I've read, it probably is). I enjoyed this so much though, it definetely pushed some of my boundaries with my discomfort with sickness, but I believe that's why I still find myself pondering this book.