“ So much of me is lost, memories simply blown aside like the leaves on the ground, and yet here I stand, remade.” - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
SYNOPSIS: Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed... again. It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As the fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not just die once. Until Aiden- one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party- can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...” - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
REVIEW: This book took me forever to finish. While it was a long book (about 460 pages) it probably took me twice as long to finish as another book of the same size. I presume it was because this book was quite confusing and I had to keep re-reading old sections, or honestly because it was so slow (maybe even a little boring?) and drawn out that it really wasn’t a page turner for me. The concept of the book and the world within was a cool idea, and something different that kind of reminded me of a black mirror episode in some ways. However, as mentioned, it was really slow paced and I felt that the major “twists” didn’t come until the last 1/4 of the book. Overall, though, the twists were fairly predictable and not super mind blowing. There is only one major twist that “got” me. However, by that point in the book I really no longer cared too much. Overall, I rated this two and a half stars, which I rounded down to two for review purposes.
While this story is narrated by one character, this character is in a different body of one of the other guests each day. To me, some of these guests were seemingly so similar and had similar voices so I often forgot who I was reading from. In addition, some of the chapters go back and forth to previous characters, which adds to the confusion. I also was not even remotely emotionally connected to any of the characters in the book, so really didn’t care about who lived or died.
Overall, I was hoping that this book as going to be more thrilling and faster paced. I would not read this again, but am looking forward to discussing it with others in a book club that I belong to. I found the actual writing to be okay, although it was devoid of emotion. Many people do like this book, however, but I think it wasn’t for me.
SYNOPSIS: Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed... again. It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As the fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not just die once. Until Aiden- one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party- can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...” - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
REVIEW: This book took me forever to finish. While it was a long book (about 460 pages) it probably took me twice as long to finish as another book of the same size. I presume it was because this book was quite confusing and I had to keep re-reading old sections, or honestly because it was so slow (maybe even a little boring?) and drawn out that it really wasn’t a page turner for me. The concept of the book and the world within was a cool idea, and something different that kind of reminded me of a black mirror episode in some ways. However, as mentioned, it was really slow paced and I felt that the major “twists” didn’t come until the last 1/4 of the book. Overall, though, the twists were fairly predictable and not super mind blowing. There is only one major twist that “got” me. However, by that point in the book I really no longer cared too much. Overall, I rated this two and a half stars, which I rounded down to two for review purposes.
While this story is narrated by one character, this character is in a different body of one of the other guests each day. To me, some of these guests were seemingly so similar and had similar voices so I often forgot who I was reading from. In addition, some of the chapters go back and forth to previous characters, which adds to the confusion. I also was not even remotely emotionally connected to any of the characters in the book, so really didn’t care about who lived or died.
Overall, I was hoping that this book as going to be more thrilling and faster paced. I would not read this again, but am looking forward to discussing it with others in a book club that I belong to. I found the actual writing to be okay, although it was devoid of emotion. Many people do like this book, however, but I think it wasn’t for me.