Review: Thought it Would Be Better
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2012
I have to admit I've never played Cluedo, but the game has become part of popular culture with references in many novels, TV shows such as the Simpsons and even conversations when a something not right is discovered, someone will joke I think it was whichever of their friends who did it with a candlestick or whatever object is in the room. So I thought this would be a fun mystery using some of the famous characters solving the mystery of from the title obviously Boddy dead in the snowbank. What it is, is basically the author giving a brief backstory (the whole story will take you about three minutes or so to read) of what the characters from the boardgame, who are now visiting a ski lodge have been up to in recent years. It's a bit highschool level humour such as one of the characters slept with a child and lost his licence, others are blackmailing each other and so on. The next morning the body of Boddy is found in the snowbank.  You don't really have to work out who did it (which is disapointing as that's the whole premice of the boardgame from my understanding) as it's simply revealed. Possibly if the boardgame was a favourite of yours you might get more out of this tale but there's much better parodies of the game or borrowings of their characters on TV shows and when briefly mentioned in novels out there for me.I did like the info provided on the history of the game Cluedo, when it was invented and so on which lifts my rating that is also part of the Kindle download. But yeah I was pretty disappointed with the story.