*Spoilers*
Hi Agatha,
As I finished this one a bit ago, my daughter said, "Has there ever been an Agatha book you didn't like?" No, I don't think so. Maybe some of the occultish stories weren't my favorite, but I just feel like you hit it out of the park every single time.
I enjoyed the setting of this one, a prestigious girls' school called Meadowbank.
I enjoyed the fact that the culprit was a woman - sorry if that's a spoiler, but it says so on the back of the book, and really, what can you expect from a cast that is 95% female?
I enjoyed the humor. It can be subtle, but it always makes me smile.
I was so involved in the story that I was surprised at the appearance of Poirot 2/3 of the way through the book. I had completely forgotten it was a Poirot novel, and even checked back at the front cover. I thought one of the girls would solve the mystery (and pretty much one did). But Hercules came to put all the threads together and wrap it all up.
There was a lot going on in this one plot-wise, and while I typically don't enjoy political, war-related, coup-related, whatever-type stuff, I did enjoy this, and was hoping until the very end that the prince and his pilot weren't really dead.
Now, Agatha, I'm off to read my final book for my reading challenge for 2021 - and it's set at Christmastime! Christmas is three weeks from today! Woot woot!
My heart is happy.
b.
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