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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
When Aiden Bishop wakes up in a body that is not his, and with hardly any memories, he knows there's something strange going on. He soon learns that he is in a time loop in Blackheath Manor, during which he has eight days and eight different bodies to figure out the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. As Bishop repeats each day, eight different times, he begins to learn more about himself and about the people surrounding him but also about the mysterious hunters desperate to kill him before he's completed the mystery of Evelyn.
I quite enjoyed this book and found it very vividly written with a great atmospheric setting. The setting of Blackheath was quite spooky and austere all at the same time, and there were so many different things happening all at once. I really enjoyed all the people Bishop inhabited and finding out about them - and how their personalities would affect the overall mystery and how bishop interpreted everything he learned that day.
There were times the book mentally exhausted me as there was just so many things going on, and so many characters (I did keep confusing Davies and Derby) to remember. And I was frustrated at the amount of times Bishop seemed to give up and allowed the footman to find him or do something to him. As I already said though, the book was quite vivid which I enjoyed - I did not, however, enjoy the stabby dreams i had while reading this and i can only blame the book XD
The ending was interesting and not what I would have guessed at all, so I was nicely surprised. It would be nice to have found out a bit more about the world beyond, and the technology allowing Bishop and Anna to be in the time loop and how it all works, and if they are from the future or how it is all happening but I'm not sure if we'll ever find out. A short story set in the same world with the time loop system would be very interesting.
Good book for fans of Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl!
When Aiden Bishop wakes up in a body that is not his, and with hardly any memories, he knows there's something strange going on. He soon learns that he is in a time loop in Blackheath Manor, during which he has eight days and eight different bodies to figure out the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. As Bishop repeats each day, eight different times, he begins to learn more about himself and about the people surrounding him but also about the mysterious hunters desperate to kill him before he's completed the mystery of Evelyn.
I quite enjoyed this book and found it very vividly written with a great atmospheric setting. The setting of Blackheath was quite spooky and austere all at the same time, and there were so many different things happening all at once. I really enjoyed all the people Bishop inhabited and finding out about them - and how their personalities would affect the overall mystery and how bishop interpreted everything he learned that day.
There were times the book mentally exhausted me as there was just so many things going on, and so many characters (I did keep confusing Davies and Derby) to remember. And I was frustrated at the amount of times Bishop seemed to give up and allowed the footman to find him or do something to him. As I already said though, the book was quite vivid which I enjoyed - I did not, however, enjoy the stabby dreams i had while reading this and i can only blame the book XD
The ending was interesting and not what I would have guessed at all, so I was nicely surprised. It would be nice to have found out a bit more about the world beyond, and the technology allowing Bishop and Anna to be in the time loop and how it all works, and if they are from the future or how it is all happening but I'm not sure if we'll ever find out. A short story set in the same world with the time loop system would be very interesting.
Good book for fans of Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl!