And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
๐๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐โ
๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ช๐๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฎ.
๐๐ค๐ช ๐ก๐ค๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ช๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐โ
๐๐ฃ ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ.
๐ผ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐, ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฅ๐จ, ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ฃ.
SYNOPSIS
When a series of strangely intimate invitations call forth the the arrival of ten complete strangers on Soldier Island, they cannot cease wondering whether a mistake had been made. Cut off from the mainland, with a mysteriously absent host, panic struggles to surface when the guests start dying under peculiar circumstances, in complete synchronization with an unsettling nursery rhyme of the disturbing deaths of Ten Little Soldiers.
Can they escape the โfatesโ of Ten Little Soldiers? And who is the killerโsomeone hidden away on the deserted island, or amongst themselves?
REVIEW
My first Agatha Christie book certainly did not disappoint. Though I did raise an eyebrow to certain partsโsuch as a woman being slapped just because men thought she was hysterical, or sentences such as โjust like a womanโ flying around the minds of menโoverall I enjoyed it VERY VERY VERY much.
As THE queen of mystery & crime, Agatha certainly has a way of fully grasping the readersโ attention while keeping the storyline clean & simple. I was quite skeptical at first to how sheโd manage, with quite a handful of characters to โkill offโ (per the book title, no spoilers!). However, she struck a perfect balance between the plot & characters.
Not once did she over-complicate the plot to result in confusion, nor was it too easy to be figured out upon a glance. And without a single unintentional sentence or scene, she also managed to perfect the background, image & personality of each character (there were at least TEN people milling about)
I will never doubt how much of an icon Agatha Christie is, nor will I be able to stay away from her books. Please drop me your favorite Agatha Christie book so I know where to begin next โก