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A review by midici
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
4.0
~spoilers~
Not going to give away the ending, but some information is going to end up in this review. In the morning, Aiden Bishop wakes up in a body that isn't his, with no memory of his own beyond the name "Anna." At 11 pm, a woman named Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered. Aiden has eight chances - and eight hosts - to discover who the murderer is. He has one friend in the house, a woman named Anna, who is trapped there like he is, only she remains set in one body with only one days worth of memories. He has at least one enemy, the footman, who is attempting to kill as many of his hosts as he can before Aiden can escape.
Blackheath House is hosting a masquerade ball, supposedly to celebrate the betrothal of Evelyn Hardcastle to Lord Cecil Ravencourt, on the anniversary of the night young Thomas Hardcastle was brutally murdered. The guests are all hiding secrets. Each one seems to be there fr their own purpose. Aiden has to work with the strengths and weaknesses of each host, checking the clues his other selves leave him, to try and discover the answer.
Beyond Blackheath's crumbling walls lie even bigger questions. Who is the Plague Doctor, with his ominous warnings? Can Aiden really trust Anna? Why is this happening to him, and what will happen to him even if he succeeds?
This is a murder mystery to the nth degree. Trying to keep track of who Aiden is in each moment as he interacts with himself and others is tricky and the more Aiden digs into the up-coming murder, the more secrets he reveals. I'm somewhat satisfied with the ending but there are a few things I wish we had less information about. In the same way that we don't fully know the end fate of Anna and Aiden, I wish we had a little less information on Aiden and Anna's connection to each other outside of Blackheath. Besides that however, I have almost no complaints about this book.
One of the absolute best parts was how the nature of each person Aiden wakes up as effects his own thoughts and actions. Some of the people are cowardly, some are conniving, others brash, others calculating, and so on. Aiden has to perform a careful balancing act of trying to either ignore or suppress the worst of his hosts or amplify and utilize the best of them in order to try and prevent this murder, and his own.
Not going to give away the ending, but some information is going to end up in this review. In the morning, Aiden Bishop wakes up in a body that isn't his, with no memory of his own beyond the name "Anna." At 11 pm, a woman named Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered. Aiden has eight chances - and eight hosts - to discover who the murderer is. He has one friend in the house, a woman named Anna, who is trapped there like he is, only she remains set in one body with only one days worth of memories. He has at least one enemy, the footman, who is attempting to kill as many of his hosts as he can before Aiden can escape.
Blackheath House is hosting a masquerade ball, supposedly to celebrate the betrothal of Evelyn Hardcastle to Lord Cecil Ravencourt, on the anniversary of the night young Thomas Hardcastle was brutally murdered. The guests are all hiding secrets. Each one seems to be there fr their own purpose. Aiden has to work with the strengths and weaknesses of each host, checking the clues his other selves leave him, to try and discover the answer.
Beyond Blackheath's crumbling walls lie even bigger questions. Who is the Plague Doctor, with his ominous warnings? Can Aiden really trust Anna? Why is this happening to him, and what will happen to him even if he succeeds?
This is a murder mystery to the nth degree. Trying to keep track of who Aiden is in each moment as he interacts with himself and others is tricky and the more Aiden digs into the up-coming murder, the more secrets he reveals. I'm somewhat satisfied with the ending but there are a few things I wish we had less information about. In the same way that we don't fully know the end fate of Anna and Aiden, I wish we had a little less information on Aiden and Anna's connection to each other outside of Blackheath. Besides that however, I have almost no complaints about this book.
One of the absolute best parts was how the nature of each person Aiden wakes up as effects his own thoughts and actions. Some of the people are cowardly, some are conniving, others brash, others calculating, and so on. Aiden has to perform a careful balancing act of trying to either ignore or suppress the worst of his hosts or amplify and utilize the best of them in order to try and prevent this murder, and his own.