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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
Very fun, if you feel like you can’t get thought it, listen to the audiobook you will get engulfed into the story so quickly
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder
Moderate: Cancer, Suicide
Minor: Ableism, Incest, Infertility
Some of my favorite things about Rebecca are du Maurier's vivid descriptions of Manderly: the shady, tunneled drive up to the house--its tangled canopy of intertwining branches; the bright morning room with its window looking out onto the violently red rhodadendrons, more floating in a little bowl on the table (I want a room like this with a writing desk like Rebecca's); the Happy Valley, heady with the perfume of azaleas; the dank, dusty little cottage on the beach, the two dogs snuffling around the two old armchairs in the firelit library... I have so many images of this world left in my head.
The almost crippling shyness of our nameless narrator reminds me a little bit of Fanny Price, although du Maurier's heroine exhibits her shyness in more amusing ways, like awkwardly hiding behind doors and pretending to know where she's going and then turning the wrong way down a corridor.
Du Maurier's characters--particularly the narrator--feel exquisitely human. The plot is solid and believable. It spirals around Rebecca's absence, closing further and further in, and delighted me at every turn. Throughout the novel I had a sense of something missed hovering overhead: a gap in knowledge, an uneasy secret, some unsavory morsel of information always carefully sidestepped. I was on the outside of the secret, with the narrator, waiting in uncertainty for the taboo to be broken and the ghastly truth to come out.
The almost crippling shyness of our nameless narrator reminds me a little bit of Fanny Price, although du Maurier's heroine exhibits her shyness in more amusing ways, like awkwardly hiding behind doors and pretending to know where she's going and then turning the wrong way down a corridor.
Du Maurier's characters--particularly the narrator--feel exquisitely human. The plot is solid and believable. It spirals around Rebecca's absence, closing further and further in, and delighted me at every turn. Throughout the novel I had a sense of something missed hovering overhead: a gap in knowledge, an uneasy secret, some unsavory morsel of information always carefully sidestepped. I was on the outside of the secret, with the narrator, waiting in uncertainty for the taboo to be broken and the ghastly truth to come out.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced