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Die sieben Tode der Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

349 reviews

katyrdn's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75


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hawkescatesreads's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-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


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rose_argentina3's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? No

4.0

I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome of this book. This was my first time reading a mystery novel and this was beyond my wildest imagination. This was so much more than your typical mystery novel with the game, the footman, and the memory aspect. Additionally, this was very well written. My only complaint would be that the story was a bit hard to follow because of the many different characters. Even between the 8 hosts I had trouble remembering who was who. Overall, an amazing intro into the world of mystery. 

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remmingtom's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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emmagreenwood's review against another edition

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

3.0


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maryconney's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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jstilts's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

An intriguing and complex tale that starts gently with an amnesiac discovering themselves at a 1920s British mansion day-long party, but quickly progresses into a rollercoaster "groundhog day" murder mystery where our sleuth wakes in a new host body as the day begins anew to try and solve or stop the murder that ends the day, all while avoiding unknown antagonists out to kill him in any and all of his host bodies.

It's an intriguing tale that does a great job of putting you in the head of the main character - no mean feat as each time they switch hosts the original personality influences their own.

That, to put it mildly, is the simple summary - the book is much more twisty and complex - but an absolute page-turner.

While it's hardly unusual for a murder mystery to have unexpected layers revealed late in the piece by the detective, this time it pretty much derailed the book for me. It's unusual flow of time and character is a lot of enjoyable work to keep up with, without the plot taking a sudden left turn as well. Ordinarily I might consider immediately re-reading the book with this new information in mind, but my brain needs a rest from juggling so very many elements of time, character and place!

One minor niggle on top: the backstory to the whole setup comes across poorly. It's a bit sci-fi when the book is very entrenched in the 1920s, and adds another layer of complexity in an already complex tale. If I was the editor for this book I would have suggested they reframe it as a ghostly supernatural cause, which would fit with the 1920s period better, and was already present in a red-herring manner to obscure that it was going to be a sci-fi explanation.

Still, that's minor, and my issue with the late-in-the-piece complication is my only real complaint, hence giving this gripping book 4 stars.

Surprisingly (mild spoiler) our main character never ends up in the body of someone of a different gender, which seems like a missed opportunity.

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mc1945's review against another edition

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

2.0

The only reason this book gets two stars instead of one is because I can tell the author did spent a lot of time working on most of the book. It's ambitious and part of me wants to like it, but it just misses the mark in the end. The ending felt like he just ran out of ideas?? It felt like a bad Black Mirror episode. There is no way in hell I would have read the entire book if I knew it would be that ending... On a side note, I don't usuall enjoy a male main character in fiction books, so, this one having one man as eight different men + all the other men characters was a little insufferable by the end. The few women characters there did appear in this book weren't even cool or fleshed out!!! Based on how he writes male characters, it's probably for the best that he didn't spend a bunch of time on the women characters actually.
 
I would also say that there were probably only three good solid plot twists in that entire seventeen hour audiobook!!! Woof. Also, why was the author like super fat phobic? Nah, not my thing.
 
I sounded actually insane trying to explain the plot to my coworker. I had to draw a character chart and that didn't even help... there were some cool concepts but the shitty half baked stuff kinda ruined it for me.

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megchase's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0


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froggybooks's review against another edition

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mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

this is the first book in a while where i have been left absolutely bamboozled! incredible.

i did get far too confused in the middle for this to be a five star read though. 

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