Carolina
*4,5
O meu primeiro Murakami <3
Algumas partes d'O Impiedoso País das Maravilhas não me estavam a dizer muito, sobretudo a grande descrição do Professor dos circuitos e isso, mas estar intervalado pelo Fim de Mundo ajudou, fiquei encantada com tudo o que se estava a passar nesses capítulos lol
Gosto sempre de uma estória em que ninguém tem nomes e alguns objetos e ideias começam com maiúscula - shout-out to Piranesi
“Tudo o que havia ali era eu. A Muralha, a porta, os animais, o Bosque, o Rio, o buraco por onde saía a ventania, o Lago: tudo era eu. Tudo estava dentro de mim. Provavelmente, até o inverno gelado era eu.”
I'm writing this a bit after finishing the book, and the crime/killer apparently wasn't at all memorable to me, because I completely forgot about it until I googled it. It was a good book though, as is, in my opinion, every Agatha Christie murder mystery, but what I think sets this novel apart is the characters, and by that I mean the sibilings. I found them both really charming and funny, and their presence as outsiders in the town was relatable to the reader. They both had more personality than the average Christie character (excluding recurring ones), and while the lack of personality is not a deal-breaker, or even an issue, to me in these types of books (hot take?), it made reading this particular novel really fun.
I got it! This is only the third (edit: fourth actually, I completely forgot “The Moving Finger” lol) Miss Marple I've read, but I'm quite familiar with Poirrot, and the crime itself seemed very Poirrot-like to me. I utterly failed at guessing the killer (or even how the crime occured) in “The Murder at the Vicarage”, and while I guessed a few key points in “The Body in the Library”, this is the first book where I actually got most of what happened before the reveal.
Miss Blacklock seemed extremely suspicious to me since the very beggining. A murder attempt happening without an actual death always casts suspicions on the “victim” of said attempt, as per quite a few other Christie novels.
This suspicious weirdly only grew, and after Bunny's death I couldn't imagine anyone else being the killer. Blacklock's conversation with Miss Marple, where Marple mentions how she has family and friends, but it is heartbreaking to lose the one person who knew you as a child, completely solidified it. At this point though, I was under the impression that Bunny thought that Charlotte was Letitia and was murdered out of precaution, in case she started noticing/remembering things and that Miss Blacklock wasn't actually Miss Blacklock (well, she was, but not quite). I should've known this wasn't likely due to Bunny's personality and devotion to her friend, but oh well, I was bound to be misled somewhere.
Bonus: I also guessed who Pip was almost immediately! I had a friend of a friend with the name and nickname, and in true Miss Marple fashion, I drew similarities ;)
Overall, I really loved this book, and it felt like a very classic Agatha Christie mystery to me, which I always love!