***SPOILER***
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU PLAN ON READING THIS BOOK.
SERIOUSLY, I MEAN IT.
DON'T SPOIL IT THE WAY I DID FOR MYSELF.
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My jaw is still open from the ending of the book. And I finished reading it yesterday. And I saw it coming (because I was reading summaries of Series of Unfortunate Events and this was one of the literary references, so naturally, I had to look it up, but I stopped myself when they mentioned that the ending would be mind-blowing, which it was). That speaks volumes.
Anywho, because I looked it up and read that the ending was mind-blowing, I always had the pretense in the back of my head of who the killer was. But Agatha Christie does a really good job of distracting me with other potential suspects from time to time. The more I read, the more I was sucked into this mystery. At first, I had my doubts because the old English diction was slightly overwhelming, but as I read on, I realized it mattered less and less to me and the characters' secrets more and more. Apparently, a lot of critics labeled the book as controversial because of its "deceptive" ending, but I absolutely LOVED it. It was exactly the kind of clever twist I always admired about "good writers" (and I put that in quotations because this is how I attribute a good writer and not necessarily how you do it). Above all, the perspective was what I appreciated the most. Just... what a clever idea! It engaged me so much that I consciously had to make a note to detach myself from the book. Oh, what a joyous experience! I'm still beaming from its trippiness.