A review by eveilie
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I'd advise readers to remember that Rebecca is a capital-R Romantic book. It's also gothic, and I think people overlook that. I don't think it's a book most people like the first time around, but that's the way of gothic literature. It requires a second read to fully understand what the book is about. In Rebecca, it's the characters and how you're supposed to feel about them that makes you need to re-read the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence and Suicide

This book is set in 1930s England. There's some mention of husbands abusing their wives, though nobody in the book is physically abused themselves. There is a discussion of gun use in relation to murder, though it is minor. One character can be seen as obsessive.