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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
I loved this book!! It's a great old fashioned adventure. There's no substitute for a great plot and story. (Ignore the awful purple and pink cover.)
Mary Yellen is 23 and goes to live with her aunt and her husband after her mother dies she moves to the England moors (ie the Cathy-Heathcliffe ones.) to live with her Mom's sister and husband. She arrives at Jamaica Inn, a wreck of a hotel, and nothing is as she has hoped. Her aunt is a beaten down shadow of a woman and her uncle Joss is a fiend.
Joss is one of my favorite recent villains. I like that he actually doesn't really have a "soft side" or hidden depths to his character. Her uncle Joss is an ignorant, alcoholic, brute. What's worse, is that he has half a brain and misses nothing and engages her in conversation, which makes him scarier.
It only takes days to realize that his inn is not a hotel at all, but merely a base for almost every smuggler and criminal in North England. I won't give away what crime they are involved in, but it's truly heinous.
Complicating matters is that she starts to fall in love with Joss's brother Jem, a horse thief she knows she has no business being attracted to.
Bottom line is that it had a great plot, great characters, and great dialog. Think Wuthering Heights meets Pirates of the Carribean.
Mary Yellen is 23 and goes to live with her aunt and her husband after her mother dies she moves to the England moors (ie the Cathy-Heathcliffe ones.) to live with her Mom's sister and husband. She arrives at Jamaica Inn, a wreck of a hotel, and nothing is as she has hoped. Her aunt is a beaten down shadow of a woman and her uncle Joss is a fiend.
Joss is one of my favorite recent villains. I like that he actually doesn't really have a "soft side" or hidden depths to his character. Her uncle Joss is an ignorant, alcoholic, brute. What's worse, is that he has half a brain and misses nothing and engages her in conversation, which makes him scarier.
It only takes days to realize that his inn is not a hotel at all, but merely a base for almost every smuggler and criminal in North England. I won't give away what crime they are involved in, but it's truly heinous.
Complicating matters is that she starts to fall in love with Joss's brother Jem, a horse thief she knows she has no business being attracted to.
Bottom line is that it had a great plot, great characters, and great dialog. Think Wuthering Heights meets Pirates of the Carribean.