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Les sept morts d'Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

168 reviews

stilestastic's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

i didn’t know what was going on at any point in this book and i LOVED it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Classism

sungravity's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

gripping story just don't think too hard about the nuances/rules of the time-travel

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism

hilarylouise's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

teatales's review against another edition

mysterious

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

3.0

I think I liked the premise more than the book itself, although obviously I kept reading through the several hundred pages. The last quarter of the book felt like it had too many twists.

And the weird explanation for the whole host swapping thing left much to be desired, as did the ending. I find it quite boring when it turns out to be some ~crazy~ woman as the killer

Hated the fatphobia as well 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Colonisation

fadeddpages's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault

kimmy0__0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I thought this was a very intriguing premise for a book. Until about half way through I didn't make any connections to what was happening and it was a little slow.

I figured out pretty early that this was some kind of prison system, but as for the actual murderer(s) this was a very tangled web.

Overall I thought it was a great read, especially for Agatha Christie book lovers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Stalking, and Alcohol

nini23's review against another edition

mysterious

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Convoluted but not necessarily clever. The fat-shaming, oy! What happened to Phillip Sutcliffe discovered by Charles Cunningham to have the porcelain beak costume in his closet - no reaction whatsoever by Aiden when he meets Sutcliffe. A forgotten loose end? 

What I found interesting I wish the author had elaborated more upon:-
- the influence of the host's personality, impulses and thought patterns upon the mind occupying the body
- the class differences especially the indignities suffered by the maids, stablehands, butlers etc.

The sinister atmosphere is well set up though the answer to this locked door murder mystery puzzle is not something one could have figured out from the clues provided.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement and Classism

amartin48's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

anni_o's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Thrilling and satisfying mystery! Very interesting concept to solve a case and kept me on my toes until the very end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Violence, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexual violence