Reading: Death Sets Sail
Sep. 18th, 2020 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartDeath Sets Sail is the ninth and final book in Robin Stevens's Wells and Wong series (although a new series, set during World War II and starring Hazel Wong's younger sister, is forthcoming). Once again, Stevens pays tribute to Agatha Christie, as Daisy and Hazel (along with schoolfriend Amina and the Junior Pinkertons, Alexander and George) take a Nile cruise which is, inevitably, interrupted by a murder.
I was a bit trepidatious about reading as reviews had mentioned a Major Character Death (not really a spoiler, as it's mentioned on page 1) but this is a lovely end to the series, which really manages to show just how much Daisy and Hazel have grown up over the last two (bizarrely murder-filled) years. It's also full of nods to classic detective fiction - all of the section titles are the titles of Agatha Christie novels, and there's one twist that came as less of a surprise to me than it might have done if I hadn't spotted a distinct resemblance to a scene from another story - which are fun to spot.
I was a bit trepidatious about reading as reviews had mentioned a Major Character Death (not really a spoiler, as it's mentioned on page 1) but this is a lovely end to the series, which really manages to show just how much Daisy and Hazel have grown up over the last two (bizarrely murder-filled) years. It's also full of nods to classic detective fiction - all of the section titles are the titles of Agatha Christie novels, and there's one twist that came as less of a surprise to me than it might have done if I hadn't spotted a distinct resemblance to a scene from another story - which are fun to spot.
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Date: 2020-09-19 11:08 am (UTC)