F.I.N.A.L.S.

Oh the joys of writing my final blog and closing out my first year of writing with the Angelos team. It’s been fun working with all of you! Thank you for all of the awesome memories and tremendous growth.

I suppose I should get to talking about that “literary classic” now, shouldn’t I? Now most people would not consider this book to be a literary classic. It is not on the same level as Pride and Predigest or The Scarlet Letter, but it is however the book that initially got me interested in writing. I chose to write about a recent book I have read. That book would of course be one of my all-time favorites- Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. This book absolutely grabs the reader’s attention like none other. The book takes you back in time to a “simpler time”, but leaves you with the realization that this could very well happen in today’s world as well, in fact there’s a new TV series that kinda plays off of this story line, Haper’s Island.

The author does an amazing job of flawlessly leading you down paths and kills off the murderer within the first few chapters of the book, which indeed throws the story line into a new playing field. It teases your brain and keeps it involved.

I personally have always been a fan of the background given on all of the characters and how in depth they go. The author really makes you feel for these people. It’s also kind of twisted at some points like how the murder recreates a scene from a girl’s past and she ends up hanging herself because of it, thus he did not “murder” her.

The book starts off fairly light-heartedly though, before the deaths start occurring. One by one each character “pays for their sins” with their lives, each in according to their own “sin”. At the end of the book a note is found by police explaining why all of the deaths occurred and what had become of the murderer. The reason behind the deaths is absolutely enticing. It makes you realize that you have a lot of power as a person and that it could very easily be abused.

I very much admire Christie’s writing skills and how she keeps such flawless track of the story line. I would very much recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery. I read mysteries all the time and have often been able to figure out plot lines because of how many I have read, but this book changed all of that. It was the first time the author was able to confuse me, yet keep me interested at the same time. Once you pick this book up I guarantee you will not be able to put it down.


*Posted for credit for JRN 412