Fond of Fonts

The Queen of Mystery is back at it again with another installment of the Hercule Poirot detective mystery series. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  takes place in King's Abbot, which is located in Great Britain. Both Mrs. Ferrars' and Mr. Ackroyd's deaths happen simultaneously after one another--one by an overdose and one by a dagger. Narrator Dr. James Sheppard is a physician who not only oversaw Mrs. Ferrars' death, but also Mr. Ackroyd's. It was shortly discovered after both murders that Dr. Sheppard's mysterious neighbor was the infamous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot! After being incognito for a time, Flora Ackroyd was able to persuade him to investigate her late uncle's murder. This mystery novel introduces a number of different characters that all hold specific roles to the background of the village and the murder itself. When reading it, I found everyone seemed to have a suspicious factor about them, but Hercule Poirot was able to weave between the s...

The title is not far off as to what this novel is all about! Mark Haddon's national bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is anything but the usual murder mystery novel.  Focused around the everyday activities of young Christopher John Francis Boone, this novel introduces adventures of detective work, family dynamics, and travel. As I'm sure you could infer, the typical murder mystery crime wasn't a murder of a human being, but that of a dog, which I'm sure pulls at the heart-strings of many readers (just wait till you find out who the killer is). I'm not spreading any spoilers of this novel, it's simply one that is just going to either catch you or not. I'm currently taking a Young Adult Literature course at my University and I found a major distinction that this book holds from other young adult novels (i.e. The Catcher in the Rye , The Outsiders , Thirteen Reasons Why , and many more) is that this novel does not typically follow a s...

Tommy Wallach's 370 page apocalyptic novel We All Looked Up  was a page turner from beginning to end. The story follows 4 different high school seniors who all lead very different lives. Peter, Andy, Anita, and Eliza all hold different backgrounds, families and hobbies, but one thing they all have in common, along with the millions of other human beings on the planet, is an asteroid by the name of Ardor, which has come to decide their fate for them, all within the matter of mere weeks. While reading Wallach's novel, I found it relatable in a sense that all 4 characters were attempting to find themselves in this short amount of time, which a number of people can relate to doing in the span of a longer lifetime. I'd have to label this a YA novel, because these 4 high school seniors are all going through common things that occur to most of us during that time, which shows the relation between these fictional characters and real-life people. The ending of this novel was defi...