There is something like too much of one thing

Two mystery books in a row that were light on the mystery. This one took over half the book to get mysterious, and by then it was pretty much over. As I was finally reaching the end, I had to suffer through two overly wordy and nearly identical explanations of how the twee Miss Marple figured out the not-mysterious mystery. Disappointing.

A great Marple. Read Caribbean Mystery first.

Nemesis is a different kind of Ms. Marple story than the others. For one thing, it has a constantly changing setting for at least half the book. Normally, the book stays in one static place generally speaking - usually the place in which the murder has occurred. This book also takes a while to really get moving, owing to the fact that the person who asks Ms. Marple to attend this mystery decides to keep things specifically vague for their own personal reasoning (which made no sense to me from a character stand point, more from a story intrigue standpoint). Ultimately, not my favorite Ms. Marple, but still a solid murder mystery. I can definitely recommend this to others, though this would not be the first on my list for me to make recommendations about.

I love Miss Marple.

Very slow start. Good plot, though.

Read for my Herbology O.W.L 2020 #magicalreadathon2020. Prompt - Mimbulus mimbletonia: title starts with an M. Career - Auror.

3.5

I read this to the family starting back in the summer and have doled the stories out piecemeal ever since. It's so strange to me that my kids were so into the stories. My wife lost interest pretty quickly, but the kids really wanted more Miss Marple. I'd read a story and then ask if they got it, and often enough they wouldn't have understood. So, having read some formal old fashioned prose to them and had them not understand what it even meant, I was never really clear on what they found so appealing about the stories. We've read most of the Sherlock Holmes stories and a couple of novels over the last few years (and a few Poirot stories too), and I've always been puzzled by their continued enthusiastic interest. For my own part, I enjoy these sorts of stories well enough but don't love them. For light-weight stuff like this, I suppose I'd rather see it dramatized on TV really, since aside from the odd chuckle or bit of cleverness, there's not a whole lot to them beyond basically simple portraiture and plot contrivance.