Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - Jamaicakroen

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Jamaicakroen by Daphne du Maurier

17 reviews

bahamyulala's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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mairaculi's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark

I didn't love it. It's a very atmospheric novel and I liked the setting on the moors. It was also engaging and never boring.

But it felt a bit staged. I got this 'story by recipe' feeling from this book: Take all your ingredients (strong female lead, rough nature setting, dark November night, a mysterious old house, bad guys, handsome stranger,...) mix them together and your sure to end up with a great story. But it didn't work out for me, it was too obvious.

What didn't help was that I didn't get Mary's character. Her 'I don't need a man' attitude didn't go well with her 'I can't because I'm a woman' mindset and what especially irked me was the 'he kissed me once therefore I now belong to him' logic - not romantic to me. The love story was not convincing. Her love interest didn't feel at all like the 'mysterious stranger' I was promised. The mystery itself also didn't feel very mysterious to me and while I didn't see it coming I was not surprised but rather disappointed with the twist at the end, especially with how stereotypical the character in question had been portrayed.

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oceanwriter's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I started reading this back in 2017 and I’ve only now picked it up again. I’ve read quite a few of Daphne Du Maurier’s works and I found this book to have the most unsettling tone of all of them all (a reason I initially put it down). The story was fantastic and gritty as always, but I had trouble getting into this one as I have with the others. I don’t know if the large reading gap contributed or not. I’m curious to watch one of the many screen adaptations of this to see if it influences my lasting opinion.

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