Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

66 reviews

nickoliver's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

The first half of the book drags a lot and is very uneventful and dare I say boring. I found especially the characters, particularly the main character, to be frustrating. She was very shy and easy to push around, so to read about her never standing up for herself was sometimes kind of a pain. However, in the second half, there was a plot twist - it wasn't the most unexpected one, but it did turn the story around a bit and made it more intriguing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

More details to the CW: incest: it's between two cousins, and it's not really seen as something scandalous, so it might've been normal back then suicide: a character is implied to have killed themself, but as a reader, you know that's not true Also CW for casual racism (a character does blackface, for example), murder, and drowning and hanging (both of these two only talked about)

katejuniper's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Plot is so so but the characters and writing make it worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Infertility, Terminal illness, and Suicide

ellanarose's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.25

Almost every problem the narrator went through could have been easily solved if she had never agreed to what I truly believe is the worst marriage proposal in fiction I've ever seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

annablume's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

the first half took me a very long time to get through, especially the beginning in monte carlo. to me it makes sense to have the book unfold in this way but it was tough to keep myself exited. it's a lovely gothic novel but i've learned that i can only take so much old money english countyside bla bla.
i've got problems with anxiety and certain passeges make you really feel the main characters anxiety and i had to take breaks when reading them. 
 

i didn't really get the fear of mrs danvers until  the masquerade. i guess i just don't fear lesbianism lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism and Alcoholism

coolmombeck's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I loved it!!!! 5/5 stars. (I can't really put my thoughts down, because I will give the story away. Just go read it!)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexism, Infidelity, Incest, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Death

the_rainydayreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Incest, Infidelity, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Alcoholism

Minor: Cancer