A review by laurenpat
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

5.0

This is one of those books I treasure and guard fiercely. I read it in high school - and I haven’t read it since because I’m afraid it won’t have the same spark the second time or that I’ll somehow taint my first unexpectedly surprising first reads. This is the epitome of gothic romance, thrown in with a naive first person narrator for some incredibly awkward second hand embarrassment. Each plot twist had a plot twist and all you could do was hang on and hope the narrator could navigate you through the story in the most painlessly way possible. I loved it. The first chapter has a slow start, but then suddenly you find yourself in a place where you can’t put it down and have to keep reading until the end. Also the new Netflix adaption of this was pretty good, but gave the couple a lot more chemistry than I had initially imagined.