book commentary 001 ☆ the mysterious affair at styles

[thornfields]

As of posting this, I am on page 139 and my god IDK why this has been such a hard book to get through. The story isn't bad, the writing isn't bad. It's just been taking me 5ever to legit get through.

I'm so ready to be done with it already, fuck.

I have too many other books to read.

Also Hastings, stop thirsting after Mary. She doesn't give a fuck about you, and she's a bitch.

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★ update 1/??

[thornfields]

Now on page 149, and I think Mary might actually be the murderer lmao.

Hastings has been thirsting and idealizing her in his head through the whole book, but Poirot, being Poirot, has never really missed a beat with her it seems.

Her reaction to him telling her "i will be ur father confessor whenever u want" was weird af.

And he said she was an "unusually jealous woman" at one point. Which now i find a random, odd, but very pointed thing to say.

So, we'll see how right I am lol

I've been trying to pinpoint who it is since like. ch 7.

★ update 2/3

[thornfields]

Welp. Was wrong about Mary but to be fair Christie kinda pulled a fucking reversal that feels unfair when we already wrote him off.

On the last chapter so we'll see how forced this tweest feels or if it makes more sense than it seems. A lot of the other explanation feels fine but this reveal feels just short of an ass-pull.

★ update 3/3

[thornfields]

Finished the book. Found it ok overall. Didn't "wow" me like And Then There Were None but it's a pretty decent start to the Proirot series.

The twist wasn't as much of an ass pull as I originally thought, so that's fine. I just have no idea why it took me so damn long to finish. Weird.