A review by sofipitch
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I really loved this book, I love the gothic setting and although the book was very slow paced around the last 1/3rd the pressure was turned up to max, very tense, I couldn't put it down. There's some very good foreshadowing, I knew the revelation about Rebecca before reading this, so I caught it. The choice of having the narrator call back to it was meh, I kind of like to do that on my own as a reader, makes me feel smart, lol.
I really liked the character of the second Mrs. de Winter, I understood her and her low self-esteem and social anxiety A LOT. I thought not choosing to name her also really highlighted that about her, she's too shy to even tell you her name. But she does become more confident, the reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is I can't believe
she actually stays with her husband, I fully expected that her husband in the future, described in the beginning was Frank. He seemed SO much nicer than Maxim I couldn't understand what she saw in him other than she was young and it was her first love so she didn't know she should demand better
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