Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος
Julia Seales, 2023
★ 3.68 from 33.2k ratings on Goodreads
A Regency miss with excellent manners and a secret obsession with murder trials; a comedy of etiquette, corpses and very badly behaved families. It should also be said: the Greek edition keeps the jokes. Not suitable for a reader who cannot bear a fart pillow. But suitable for almost everyone else. The book reads like a Regency comedy of manners with a body in the drawing room: brisk, witty, and fond of silly, crowded set pieces.
Feels like wonder, humor and joy. About memory and society.
Who it’s for
You may enjoy this if you like Austen pastiche, cozy mysteries and jokes that happily go too far. Be warned that the zany details and large cast can feel overdone, and the tone does not always hold steady.
Why read it
It gives you a light, joke-filled mystery that also pokes at etiquette and family misbehavior, with the Greek edition keeping the humor intact.
A page from the book
A village where rudeness is forgivable and curiosity is not.
Υπογράμμιζε ενδιαφέρουσες λεπτομέρειες με γλαφυρές περιγραφές και μουτζούρωνε «Χάξλεϊ και Στιλ» στα περιθώρια κάθε άρθρου. Προσπάθησε ακόμα και να κεντήσει μια μικρογραφία του λόρδου. Ηέλλειψη δεξιοτήτων της στο κέντημα εξασφάλισε ότι το ενδιαφέρον της θα παρέμενε απαρατήρητο, καθώς όλοι νόμιζαν ότι είχε κεντήσει μια πατάτα. Δυστυχώς στο Σουάμπσαϊρ όλα αυτά την έκαναν –κάποιος θα ντρεπόταν ακόμα και να το ξεστομίσει– ένα νοσηρό φρικιό. Φυσικά, υπάρχουν πολλά είδη καθαρμάτων: οι ηδονοβλεψίες, όσοι παραμονεύουν, εκείνοι που τολμούν να εμφανιστούν σ’ ένα πάρτι δώδεκα λεπτά νωρίτερα απ’ ό,τι ορίζει η πρόσκληση – αλλά στο Σουάμπσαϊρ, όσοι ασχο- RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTY1MTE= E N A Σ Π Ο Λ Υ Ε Υ Χ Α Ρ Ι Σ Τ Ο Σ Φ Ο Ν Ο Σ 19 λούνταν με τις νοσηρότητες, θεωρούνταν οι πιο απεχθείς. What readers say
Readers often found it funny and charming, especially its Regency/Austen parody and cozy mystery banter, though many felt the humor and zany details were overdone, the cast too crowded, and the tone uneven.
Julia Seales.Julia Seales is an American novelist and screenwriter; her debut became a word-of-mouth hit for mixing Regency romance with a cosy murder mystery, a blend she has called her favourite kind of comfort reading.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος for me?
- You may enjoy this if you like Austen pastiche, cozy mysteries and jokes that happily go too far. Be warned that the zany details and large cast can feel overdone, and the tone does not always hold steady.
- What is Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος like?
- The book reads like a Regency comedy of manners with a body in the drawing room: brisk, witty, and fond of silly, crowded set pieces. Feels like wonder, humor and joy. About memory and society.
- What should I read after Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος?
- If you liked Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος, try Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl), Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) and The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune).
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A river you could swim in, and a man who cannot stop explaining it.
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What a sitcom family can give a kid who has none.
Sitting alone in the dark, watching the show on my laptop, I always found myself imagining that I lived in that warm, well-lit house, and that those smiling, understanding people were my family. That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn’t sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).
Ready Player One · Ernest Cline
The difference between the posters on the wall and the laughter behind the door.
He was about to leave through the front door when he paused at a bright burst of laughter coming from the kitchen. Against his better judgment, he tiptoed toward the sound. He passed by posters nailed to the walls, the same messages that hung in all the DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages he’d been to. They showed smiling children below such legends as WE’RE HAPPIEST WHEN WE LISTEN TO THOSE IN CHARGE and A QUIET CHILD IS A HEALTHY CHILD and WHO NEEDS MAGIC WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR IMAGINATION?
The House in the Cerulean Sea · T.J. Klune
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