Reviews - L'auberge de la Jamaïque

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L'auberge de la Jamaïque

Daphne du Maurier

3.81 AVERAGE

dkammy's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

oceanwriter's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious 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

I started reading this back in 2017 and I’ve only now picked it up again. I’ve read quite a few of Daphne Du Maurier’s works and I found this book to have the most unsettling tone of all of them all (a reason I initially put it down). The story was fantastic and gritty as always, but I had trouble getting into this one as I have with the others. I don’t know if the large reading gap contributed or not. I’m curious to watch one of the many screen adaptations of this to see if it influences my lasting opinion.

Content Warnings

bethanyevelyn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

sarahlobster's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

bessa's review against another edition

5.0

ამას, კინოს სახლისეული სიმყუდროვით, შავ-თეთრ ფილმად, დიდი სიამოვნებით ვნახავდი..

bookish_ann's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed this! It’s so very gothic, but with a truly plucky heroine.
Hopefully I’ll return with a more thorough review, but for now I’ll say I was disappointed in the very classist WASPY reveals.

Spoiler

I was hoping the “freak” was not going to end up as the villain, but I was wrong. And if being all rude about albinism wasn’t enough, du Maurier has to be snotty about pagans too. And *of course* we must keep “our kind” and “their kind” segregated. Ah well.

. But I will give the book a pass on that because it’s old and I was here for the moors anyway.