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A review by forever_day
Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
3.0
AR: 3.5
(Obligatory disclaimer that this is my first Albert Campion)
I'm very sure the concept of 'detective wakes up in the middle of plot with no memory' has been done before, but I haven't come across it, and it was a new experience to read. I partially enjoyed the sensation of discovering everything along with him and partially just found it stressful as he attempts to cope with A Lot with No Idea how to. Also, probably because of this, the plot seemed a little wandering at times. He's wandering around blind (and so not terribly effectively) for a lot of it. Yet it was still an engaging enough read and the conclusion satisfying enough, a good one-timey crime novel.
(Also, one separate crit: despite how well he thought of Amanda while he lacked memory, he seemed to revert completely to treating her like a child the instant he regains it? I don't know, the fact he never tells her he lost his memory for a spell seems very strange to me)
(Obligatory disclaimer that this is my first Albert Campion)
I'm very sure the concept of 'detective wakes up in the middle of plot with no memory' has been done before, but I haven't come across it, and it was a new experience to read. I partially enjoyed the sensation of discovering everything along with him and partially just found it stressful as he attempts to cope with A Lot with No Idea how to. Also, probably because of this, the plot seemed a little wandering at times. He's wandering around blind (and so not terribly effectively) for a lot of it. Yet it was still an engaging enough read and the conclusion satisfying enough, a good one-timey crime novel.
(Also, one separate crit: despite how well he thought of Amanda while he lacked memory, he seemed to revert completely to treating her like a child the instant he regains it? I don't know, the fact he never tells her he lost his memory for a spell seems very strange to me)