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jonn

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73% complete! jonn has read 39 of 53 books.

Anthony Horowitz: Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes, #2) 4 stars

Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2014. …

Genius

5 stars

I can't express how amazing this book was to read.

I can't review it without spoilers, except for maybe one thing — as a person who dabbles in mathematics, I am frustrated with myself that I didn't notice an amazing symmetry in one of the most important characters in this book.

If only I have "flipped the arrows", as category theorists say in their business, I would have figured it out. Alas, I gasped.

Anthony Horowitz: The House of Silk (2011, Mulholland Books) 4 stars

For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized …

Another modern classic by Horowitz

4 stars

One of the mysteries which perfectly invokes feeling smart in the reader and containing a nice plot twist as a cherry on the cake, which I didn't quite foresee.

Very solid.

Agatha Christie: Autumn Chills (2023, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 2 stars

Racist trash

2 stars

I always was adamant that David Suchet's portrayal of Poirot and the ITV's writers' work on the masterpiece series is significantly superior (no pun intended) to Christie's writing, but re-reading her works for the first time since I was a kid was truly shocking.

I liked her foreseeing fake news and Truman show though, she was a good writer. A shame that she seems to have been a horrible human being.

Sophie Hannah: Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (2023, HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow & Company) 4 stars

Great start, mediocre lull in the middle, but eventually the book presents enough material to try and figure out who have done it.

4 stars

While reading Hannah's works, the question is always — where do I stop and think.

I think that when and if she will produce the next "new Poirot mystery" book, I shall read it all the way till Poirot assembles people in the room to reveal the name of the culprit and start thinking then.

Painful reiteration of the acting characters that occupied the first third of the book was so non-succinct, it felt like gasps a filler.

Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2021, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 4 stars

What I liked about this one is that we are presented with the scope of the case ealy on in the story.

4 stars

As opposed to Horowitz's works, which are — I'm sorry to say — quite superior to Hannah's (and I secretly wish he would have been the author of new Poirot mysteries, given his stellar work at ITV's Poirot adaptations), Sophie Hannah normally sandbags a lot of facts.

Rather than progressive increase of the story fidelity like in Horowitz's books, Hannah's takes the approach of progressive reveal. Which works alright, but I normally don't even start thinking about who have done it until two thirds into her books.

This story, however, allows us to start thinking early and the outcome of such thinking is of the most satisfying nature.

Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie: Mystery of Three Quarters (2018, HarperCollins Publishers Limited) 4 stars

Hercule Poirot’s tranquil afternoon is ruined when an angry woman accosts him outside his front …

Gripping, well-written mystery. Sopie Hannah a bit overuses the persona of Poirot as the central figure of the events of the book.

4 stars

In Christie's stories this plot was used here and there. I think it worked so well because it was quite rare?

Still enjoyed it.