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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
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:
Complicated
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
tense
I’ve just finished it and I already want to read it again, that’s how much I loved it. The writing style and the story telling are top notch!!
I had no idea what to expect from this novel. My husband picked it up for me because Hitchcock based one of his early films on it. This month I am interested in reading books that have been turned into respected films.
I-loved-this-novel, but it took me about 100 pages to understand why I loved it. Almost nothing happens until the last couple of chapters, but it’s from the point of view of a young, self consciences girl so every plot-less social encounter is filled with anxious suspense. I wanted to both hug and slap our unnamed narrator.
Daphne Du Maurier captured the anxious narrator perfectly. The girls thoughts start out perfectly rooted in real life, and then they get carried away into pages and pages of tortured digressions before dropping us right back into the main novel where we left off. It’s exactly what it’s like to be an anxious girl living outside her comfort zone. Every opportunity for a ‘what-if’ moment is completely explored through such digressions.
The general plot is simple and it has been done a million times. Poor girl meets rich man, falls in love, lives in mansion, and… maybe there was an ex-wife or something. Jane Eyre did it better, but I sank into this novel.
I will recommend it to my friends and coworkers and it would be a great book club selection. But it’s a little too simple to think it needs to be reread or taught.
A quick note on the movie: meh
I-loved-this-novel, but it took me about 100 pages to understand why I loved it. Almost nothing happens until the last couple of chapters, but it’s from the point of view of a young, self consciences girl so every plot-less social encounter is filled with anxious suspense. I wanted to both hug and slap our unnamed narrator.
Daphne Du Maurier captured the anxious narrator perfectly. The girls thoughts start out perfectly rooted in real life, and then they get carried away into pages and pages of tortured digressions before dropping us right back into the main novel where we left off. It’s exactly what it’s like to be an anxious girl living outside her comfort zone. Every opportunity for a ‘what-if’ moment is completely explored through such digressions.
The general plot is simple and it has been done a million times. Poor girl meets rich man, falls in love, lives in mansion, and… maybe there was an ex-wife or something. Jane Eyre did it better, but I sank into this novel.
I will recommend it to my friends and coworkers and it would be a great book club selection. But it’s a little too simple to think it needs to be reread or taught.
A quick note on the movie: meh
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Incest, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury