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I don't want to post any spoilers for either book, but I respectfully really disagree with you. Once you have the big picture reveal of each, they're completely different, beginning with the purpose of the trip itself (who calls everyone together and why).
I have read both, and for me, the purpose of the trip would be one of the little details she changed. The entire time I was reading it I just wanted to go back to the orginal
And Then There Were None is one of my all-time favorite books, so I'm with you as far as thinking it's better than almost anything else out there. But in ATTWM, everyone has been drawn together by anonymous letters, the killer is among them but pretending to be a fellow recipient, AND the killer fakes a death scene to cross themselves off the list. The entire point of the trip is to kill everyone. Here, the purpose of the trip--a corporate retreat--was legitimate, and it was only Eva's incessant pushing that led to her death, plus cleaning up the mess by killing Elliot and Ani. The killer also never fakes her own death. Feels pretty different to me.
For my part, I have to disagree as well. I wouldn't say it is the same story - the same type of story, sure, it is a favourite trope, but apart from the secluded location and people dying "one by one", I don't really see that many similarities. The characters are different, colleagues instead of strangers, the purpose of the trip is different, the killer's motive is different and the killer loses in the end instead of winning. It certainly isn't super-original, but I don't think it was pretending or supposed to be, really. But each to their own.
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I don't want to post any spoilers for either book, but I respectfully really disagree with you. Once you have the big picture reveal of each, they're completely different, beginning with the purpose of the trip itself (who calls everyone together and why).
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I have read both, and for me, the purpose of the trip would be one of the little details she changed. The entire time I was reading it I just wanted to go back to the orginal
And Then There Were None is one of my all-time favorite books, so I'm with you as far as thinking it's better than almost anything else out there. But in ATTWM, everyone has been drawn together by anonymous letters, the killer is among them but pretending to be a fellow recipient, AND the killer fakes a death scene to cross themselves off the list. The entire point of the trip is to kill everyone. Here, the purpose of the trip--a corporate retreat--was legitimate, and it was only Eva's incessant pushing that led to her death, plus cleaning up the mess by killing Elliot and Ani. The killer also never fakes her own death. Feels pretty different to me.
For my part, I have to disagree as well. I wouldn't say it is the same story - the same type of story, sure, it is a favourite trope, but apart from the secluded location and people dying "one by one", I don't really see that many similarities. The characters are different, colleagues instead of strangers, the purpose of the trip is different, the killer's motive is different and the killer loses in the end instead of winning. It certainly isn't super-original, but I don't think it was pretending or supposed to be, really. But each to their own.
