nickoliver 's review for:

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

3.25

dark mysterious slow-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, 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)