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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
I loved this book!! It's a great old fashioned adventure. There's no substitute for a great plot and story. (Ignore the awful purple and pink cover.)
Mary Yellen is 23 and goes to live with her aunt and her husband after her mother dies she moves to the England moors (ie the Cathy-Heathcliffe ones.) to live with her Mom's sister and husband. She arrives at Jamaica Inn, a wreck of a hotel, and nothing is as she has hoped. Her aunt is a beaten down shadow of a woman and her uncle Joss is a fiend.
Joss is one of my favorite recent villains. I like that he actually doesn't really have a "soft side" or hidden depths to his character. Her uncle Joss is an ignorant, alcoholic, brute. What's worse, is that he has half a brain and misses nothing and engages her in conversation, which makes him scarier.
It only takes days to realize that his inn is not a hotel at all, but merely a base for almost every smuggler and criminal in North England. I won't give away what crime they are involved in, but it's truly heinous.
Complicating matters is that she starts to fall in love with Joss's brother Jem, a horse thief she knows she has no business being attracted to.
Bottom line is that it had a great plot, great characters, and great dialog. Think Wuthering Heights meets Pirates of the Carribean.
Mary Yellen is 23 and goes to live with her aunt and her husband after her mother dies she moves to the England moors (ie the Cathy-Heathcliffe ones.) to live with her Mom's sister and husband. She arrives at Jamaica Inn, a wreck of a hotel, and nothing is as she has hoped. Her aunt is a beaten down shadow of a woman and her uncle Joss is a fiend.
Joss is one of my favorite recent villains. I like that he actually doesn't really have a "soft side" or hidden depths to his character. Her uncle Joss is an ignorant, alcoholic, brute. What's worse, is that he has half a brain and misses nothing and engages her in conversation, which makes him scarier.
It only takes days to realize that his inn is not a hotel at all, but merely a base for almost every smuggler and criminal in North England. I won't give away what crime they are involved in, but it's truly heinous.
Complicating matters is that she starts to fall in love with Joss's brother Jem, a horse thief she knows she has no business being attracted to.
Bottom line is that it had a great plot, great characters, and great dialog. Think Wuthering Heights meets Pirates of the Carribean.
It was good- I didn't like it as much as Rebecca, but the story is very compelling. The Narrator has really interesting thoughts about gender roles and being a woman that is a really interesting point of view from the time the book was written.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I think this is one of the best stories I’ve ever read and it kept me hooked up until the last line. The outcome was exactly as I wanted, if not better and I love all the characters dearly.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Du Maurier sure know's how to write Complicated Men .
Following her mother’s dying wish, Mary leaves her farm and childhood home and heads south across the Cornish moors to live with her once vivacious Aunt Patience at the Jamaica Inn. Upon arrival she finds her aunt a shadow of the women she once was, abused and downtrodden by her villainous husband Joss Merlyn. Whispers of the inn’s criminal reputation and the cruelty of Joss should send Mary running in the opposite direction, but she can’t leave her aunt to suffer alone.
Gripping, atmospheric and evocative, Jamaica Inn is everything you could hope for in a coastal thriller. Daphne Du Maurier’s descriptions of the harsh and unforgiving Cornish moors bring the book to life, and her talent for story telling and pacing makes this a definite page-turner.
It excels as a piece gothic literature, but is very much a product of its time when it comes to the characterisation of our heroine, Mary. She isn’t quite the traditional damsel in distress, but she does get herself into many a situation which would be seen as unseemly for a women, and men are consistently portrayed as coming to her rescue. She came across as naive and impulsive, and whilst her flaws did contribute well to the plot, I honestly wanted to shake her for wondering the roads alone at night or boldly facing a pack of criminals without considering the consequences. I absolutely adored Du Maurier’s descriptions of her villains, subtly pointing to traits that made them uncanny and suspicious, rather than explicitly naming them the villain. Joss Merlyn has become one of my all time favourite antagonists.
Gripping, atmospheric and evocative, Jamaica Inn is everything you could hope for in a coastal thriller. Daphne Du Maurier’s descriptions of the harsh and unforgiving Cornish moors bring the book to life, and her talent for story telling and pacing makes this a definite page-turner.
It excels as a piece gothic literature, but is very much a product of its time when it comes to the characterisation of our heroine, Mary. She isn’t quite the traditional damsel in distress, but she does get herself into many a situation which would be seen as unseemly for a women, and men are consistently portrayed as coming to her rescue. She came across as naive and impulsive, and whilst her flaws did contribute well to the plot, I honestly wanted to shake her for wondering the roads alone at night or boldly facing a pack of criminals without considering the consequences. I absolutely adored Du Maurier’s descriptions of her villains, subtly pointing to traits that made them uncanny and suspicious, rather than explicitly naming them the villain. Joss Merlyn has become one of my all time favourite antagonists.
dark
mysterious
slow-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
I loved the book. Mary Yellen is an amazing character. However I do wish that Mary would have gone to the farm that she wanted. Jem could have joined her later when he would realise that he was a douche bag. Other than that I wholly enjoyed this book.
Daphne du Maurier writes so lovely. She can write such amazing stories filled with strong characters and plot twisting turns. Amazing, please read.