Reviews

The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

barbarajean's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

carrie562's review

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.5

legalois's review against another edition

4.0

Check out my review on my blog http://youmeandacupofteablog.blogspot.com/2014/05/mary-westcott-agatha-christie-novels.html

carlat22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Completely different from all the Agatha Christie novels I have read. I found this interesting on many levels. 

kyspsy's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Again, I can’t process this book properly and I don’t know whether to recommend it or not I think it has a hell of a lot less obvious problematic undertones, then the most recent one by Agatha Christie, that I read, because it is obvious to me that this has a lot of challenges to problematic behaviour even to some extent, the internal able ism of the main character, even though I still have many problems with the disability and chronic illness representation in this book so if that is going to trigger you as always be careful and look after yourself. I do think it’s slightly better than every other one. I’ve read though that isn’t a well-known book by her, especially even though I do think all her books are symptom of the time to some extent. There is one particular relationship here, however, where I am very apprehensive because there is such a clear seen in the book. Where  you know what might have happened to the female character in that relationship and I really don’t know how to feel about it because as I’ve said before this is written by a woman who is the best to my knowledge presented very womanly in her time, so I don’t know whether it’s commentary or internalised sexism o internalised  inferiority complex.

miranda_bird's review

mysterious relaxing medium-paced

4.0

siddharth_12_6's review

Too slow and didn’t enjoy it

aflovell2's review

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

jburns13's review

sad slow-paced

2.5

luizakechyan's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0