ruthiella 's review for:

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

2.0

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It seems silly to compare this book to "Rebecca", the only other Du Maurier I have read (twice, in fact), but I am going to do it. It isn't half as good. "Jamaica Inn" is a chaste romance novel with a spunky, too curious, proto-feminist heroine and very little suspense. Orphaned at 23, Mary goes to live with her Aunt and Uncle at Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, where things are not what they seem. The reader knows more or less how it will all wrap up, which is too bad. The real villian, had he been more fleshed out, would have been worthy of a James Bond novel.