Reviews - De sju morden på Evelyn Hardcastle

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De sju morden på Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

3.83 AVERAGE

meg_beatty_jr's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alixlowe's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

brisaemendez's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

themorroway's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

killerwhaletank's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

If the child of Agatha Christie and Quantum Leap got together with the child Black Mirror and Groundhog Day... you'd end up with this book.

I think I'll have to re-read this one just to appreciate the level of plotting that went into it. I am sure I missed a lot of things, but overall, I was just really impressed with the author's ability to blend the narrator (it's a first person book) with the characters he's seeing the world through.

Very creative, interesting... a house party mystery that held my interest!

If I have any complaints, it's that it did get a little complex to follow, but even still, I felt the author did a great job of tying things all together and making this ultimately very satisfying.

kennadyc's review against another edition

2.0

I feel disappointed cause I really wanted to like this but no it was just to boring. It’s the first mystery book I was just ready to skip to the end for and to be honest once you get past the third host you can skip to the end and feel like you did not miss much. Honestly, all I could think about was that maybe this would be more fun as a doctor who episode instead(cause I actually know more about those characters than I do Aiden and Anna after 480 pages of them) but that’s a kind of a hard recommendation to sell this book on.

Keeping up the idea of this instead as a Doctor Who AU In my opinion I would say let’s just make it about 10 and River Song with like a weeping Angel (or some character created by Steven Moffat) as the footman and you know what throw a Rose cameo in there as well to play Evelyn to drive 10 to want to save her more which is why the plot twist is even more sinister when we discover that the Master was the one in charge all along!

I just had a way more fun turning this into a Doctor Who episode than I did reading it.