Before I started this book, I didn’t think I’d ever use a 4.75 stars but here we are. I always thought that if I ended up liking a book enough that it got to the point of a 4.75 stars I would just give it the 5 stars. I think this is the perfect book for it.

Rebecca is so great. Everything about it. From the beginning pages, to the last sentence wraps you in this claustrophobic, paranoid, mess. You are in a world where you feel like you are constantly looking over your shoulder. Always expecting the very worse to happen and it’s gripping and makes for a novel you can just eat up.

We see our narrator go through various stages in the novel, from youthful, naive girl to someone who is fully embroiled in a

murder and cover up.

The paranoia and dread just ooze off the pages and makes more an extremely compelling read. It managed to surprise me multiple times and I was thoroughly entertained the entire way through. I highly recommend.

Now to address the 4.75. This book had a high ceiling and it immediately became a candidate for a 5 star read which I try not to hand out freely. I wanted to rate it as one but there was just something missing from it in the initial read that I felt like I wanted to see. 

I want to be clear this is extremely minor.  This is a nearly flawless book, but there’s a few more things I would have liked to see particularly around the climax and finale to give it that final push. That extra “X factor” that my other 5 stars bring it to a perfect book.

Can’t recommend the book enough. It’s a classic for a reason.