A review by weseljak
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

You can’t help but be swept up in it.

There are two kinds of mystery novels: good ones which the reader has hope of solving on their own and bad ones which don’t give any reader the chance at ever figuring it out on their own.
In the second, there’s an annoying point where everything becomes too complicated for the reader to ever solve themselves. 
This novel is the first to ever reach that annoying point and continue in such a convoluted way that it creates a secret third option where having no hope of ever unraveling the mystery becomes actually entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism