A review by nickoliver
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

The first half of the book drags a lot and is very uneventful and dare I say boring. I found especially the characters, particularly the main character, to be frustrating. She was very shy and easy to push around, so to read about her never standing up for herself was sometimes kind of a pain. However, in the second half, there was a plot twist - it wasn't the most unexpected one, but it did turn the story around a bit and made it more intriguing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

More details to the CW: incest: it's between two cousins, and it's not really seen as something scandalous, so it might've been normal back then suicide: a character is implied to have killed themself, but as a reader, you know that's not true Also CW for casual racism (a character does blackface, for example), murder, and drowning and hanging (both of these two only talked about)