Exactly how steamy is this story?
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Even though this is a book full of grown adults hanging out in an island mansion, And Then There Were None is about as warm as a tepid sitz bath. Perhaps it’s because all of the characters are British, from the early 1900s, and believe in strict decorum, but they hardly every stray into the wild waters of sexiness. In fact, the most lustful thought that anyone seems to have in the book happens at the beginning when Philip Lombard looks over at Vera Claythorne in the train:
Philip Lombard, summing up the girl opposite in a mere flash of his quick moving eyes thought to himself:
“Quite attractive—a bit schoolmistressy, perhaps.” (1.23-24)
Hope that satisfied you, because that’s about as steamy as it gets in the whole book. The rest of it remains pretty tame, and besides, everyone’s too busy worrying about the fact that there’s a murderer in their midst to even worry about romance.