And Then There Were None blog (mystery)

Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None held an interesting aspect of it I wasn't expecting. She actually went into the characters personalities instead of jumping right into the mystery part of this book. All the characters were so varied, from school teacher Vera Claythorne to the wild driving Tony Marston, you could tell she really thought through how she wanted her characters to be portrayed by how the characters described themselves and how others described them. Another rather interesting piece was the fact that even though the story begun with going to Indian Island, very little info was given about this island where all the characters were heading to. The same "it was bought by a millionaire" was repeated by almost all the main character. This book really reminded of The Westing Game, with it's numerous characters and the shroud of mystery surrounding the head of it all. This book is kind of slow at the start, probably because there has to be some setting of the scene, but the characters are very realistic, there is bound to be at least one person you know in real life who matches at least one of the characters, so I do recommend this book, it's not long and it switches from different points of view so it won't bore you easily.