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amberlou30's review
3.0
The Christie Affair tells the story of what happened to Agatha Christie for 10 days in December after her husband left her. Told through the perspective of Nan, Archie Christie’s mistress, the novel seeks to both explain her disappearance and create a case for murder.
I really wanted to like this book. I expected what I would get out of a Christie novel, but instead I got a narrator who rationalizes her poor choices. Even in providing an explanation, I couldn’t understand her rationale or sympathize with her plight even in cases where I wanted to. Every decision was self-serving. Her version of Agatha is eccentric and hysterical, not at all the clever writer the world knows. In just couldn’t find this fiction believable.
After the events are revealed, which despite attempting to be cryptic are completely predictable, the book slogs on with no real direction. I took too long for me to finish the last 30 pages. I was done hearing from Nan.
This was a great idea executed poorly. I blame the narrator.
I really wanted to like this book. I expected what I would get out of a Christie novel, but instead I got a narrator who rationalizes her poor choices. Even in providing an explanation, I couldn’t understand her rationale or sympathize with her plight even in cases where I wanted to. Every decision was self-serving. Her version of Agatha is eccentric and hysterical, not at all the clever writer the world knows. In just couldn’t find this fiction believable.
After the events are revealed, which despite attempting to be cryptic are completely predictable, the book slogs on with no real direction. I took too long for me to finish the last 30 pages. I was done hearing from Nan.
This was a great idea executed poorly. I blame the narrator.
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