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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

100 reviews

frantically's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Sadly just could not get into this! I found it very hard to put down a certain time period in which this was set — for me at least it swung between regency-ish and more modern fiction and just made certain aspects seem out of place. I did love how class-concious this novel is but for a classic written by a woman, with all its misogyny and unnamed female main characters, I did expect a bit more. It takes so long for anything to happen, that when it did I was just happy knowing that we were close to the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity, Cancer, Grief, and Incest

Minor: Abortion

atelopxobia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Incest, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Ableism, and Gaslighting

reading_under_covers's review against another edition

4.5

This one took me a couple of chapters before I got sucked into it, but wow, what a haunting, clever, gothic story. 

The fact that the MC is never given a name really added to the story and the ending had me 🤯 👀 

Note: There were a couple of problematic scenes, which I guess at the time wouldn’t have come across that way, but were cringe and uncomfortable to read in the modern day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Infidelity

Minor: Incest

sadiaa's review against another edition

4.75

Wish it didn't end the way it did 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Dementia, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Terminal illness, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Death

cowboyaj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

5.0

daphne du maurier has become my writing INSPIRATION with this book. girl understands exactly how and when to leave me in suspense!! also sorry to my friend johnny for having to watch videos of me in shock due to this novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, and Murder

Minor: Incest and Cultural appropriation

mishasbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Violence, War, Gun violence, Incest, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

maeverose's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.75

TL;DR: I have mixed feelings. I like the overall story, the atmosphere, I really enjoyed the first third/half, then it got way too slow, repetitive and boring. This review will be very negative despite my overall feelings. I didn’t hate the book at all I just have more to say about the negatives.

This is the most atmospheric book I’ve ever read, but imo it’s to a fault. I like slow atmospheric books, and I really liked the writing in the beginning, but the long drawn out descriptions started to take away from the scene we were in and it got frustrating. It was obvious at times when it was being used to add suspense, drawing out the scene making you wait for a reveal or conversation to happen. Some people might like that, I found it irritating. Narrator’s daydreams were funny and relatable at first, but again, got to be too excessive and were inserted at times that felt unnecessary or inappropriate. I found myself internally screaming at her to go talk to someone rather than sulk and daydream. The book overall is very slow, not much of the plot happens until the last 20%.

This book is so repetitive. Narrator has a lot of similar conversations and social interactions throughout the book. She has similar daydreams (too many daydreams), repeating thoughts, etc. Another annoying thing is something will happen or be said, and then the characters will talk about or explain the thing that we just saw happen. Sometimes multiple different characters will explain the same thing, so we end up reading about that same event or statement two or more times before we move on.. not to mention all the unnecessary
‘ “Yes,” I said. ’s

I hate Maxim. Of course this book isn’t a romance novel, and it was written over 80 years ago so the misogyny is not at all unexpected, but being as they remain a couple by the end it’s irritating to me. He’s so patronizing and misogynistic towards Narrator from the beginning and it only gets worse later on. Frank had much better chemistry with Narrator, I didn’t feel like Maxim actually liked her at all, we hardly even saw them together. And the fact that he was so much older than her but also liked that she was young and innocent grossed me out.

This book is very ableist, specifically towards people with intellectual disabilities.

On a less critical note (though still negative because it’s depressing), I was surprised how much I related to Narrator with her social difficulties. I think the intention was that she was young and wasn’t used to all the social obligations of being a more well known person, but to me it read very similar to social anxiety or maybe even autism/adhd. She also had pretty intense insecurities and didn’t think very highly of herself (rejection sensitivity?), which honestly made me a bit sad while reading because I related to so much of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Ableism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Pedophilia, Racism, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Fire/Fire injury, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content

Ageism. Minor spoilers related to the pedophilia and suicidal thoughts:

Mrs Danvers is queer coded in her feelings towards Rebecca but it’s stated that Mrs Danvers cared for her since Rebecca was a child. They also mention men being attracted to Rebecca when she was a child. Mrs Danvers suicide baits narrator and Narrator almost follows through. You’re in Narrator’s head in that moment.

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

So so good! It's best to go into the book knowing as little as possible, that'll help with the mysterious and thrilling feelings. In the British aristocracy everything is fine on the surface level, but if you keep peeling the onion, sooner or later it may even make you shed a tear or two. The psychological aspects of the late wife's shadow, Mrs. fucking Danvers and borderline grooming really made me feel on edge.

I KNEW THAT MANDERLEY WAS GOING TO BURN AT SOME POINT (hope mrs danvers went with the house) 

i'd also like to know why it is so hard not to bang your cousin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Classism, Murder, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Cancer, Suicide, and Incest

coolfijiwater's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, and Suicide

Minor: Incest and Terminal illness

exlibrissum's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Incest, Cancer, and Terminal illness