Tag: Mystery
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The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train is a bleak, slow-paced mystery with unlikeable characters, minimal growth, and a predictable ending, 6/10.
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The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1)
Despite predictable, heavy-handed twists, brisk pacing and nuanced characters make The Housemaid an engaging read. 7/10
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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes #1-2)
Enjoyable but predictable start to Holmes. Fast setup, slow backstories, limited insight via Watson. Some dated views. Solid read, not gripping. 7/10.
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Strange Houses
Creepy moments aside, Strange Houses leans on absurd logic, flat characters, and clunky style—never awful, just underwhelming. 3.5/10.
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Strange Pictures
A brisk, Japanese mystery that starts strong with eerie visuals but loses steam. Still a fun, quick read—just don’t expect Poirot-level twists.
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The Last
Turns out that mixing murder mystery, post apocalypse and survival doesn’t make a very good cocktail. The Last falls short in each genre, and if the blurb is intriguing, its execution is quite lacklustre. Not an offensive read but there’s bound to be better things to read.
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Pines (Wayward Pines #1)
Whilst it doesn’t reach the heights of Blake Crouch’s other books, Pines is still a solid mystery thriller. It feels a bit more cliché and the ending whilst it is a solid twist isn’t a particularly strong motivator to read the sequels.
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures #1)
A bit bland given the blurb and the cover’s flavour but unfortunately both romance and mystery end up a bit underwhelming even if it never becomes boring at least.
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The Guest List
The Guest List is a murder mystery where the murder happens in the last 50 pages which makes it a pretty bad murder mystery. For the other 250 odd pages before it’s just depressing people being depressed about their depressing lives.