DNF @ 30%

I'm fairly sure this book is completely up to par with the rest of Dame Agatha Christie's works, but I can't finish it. Once again I'm convinced that the short story genre isn't my cup of tea. At all. I can't get attached to the characters for lack of time to really delve into their personalities, and if I don't care about the characters, it's headed for the DNF pile.

DNF @ 7% (That's a new low for me, I think)

I really wanted to like this book, because I rarely stumble upon a book with a gay MC the plot of which isn't held up by steamy romance(at least, I understood that to be the case with The Ornamental Hermit), but this was so gloomy and heavy, with difficult ot read prose right off the bat, I was immediately put off. I didn't even have the time to try to like any of the characters, or the set up.

Meh. Not my cuppa.