MixedLike I didn't love Mexican Gothic. I don't love Rebecca. They're good, like they're three-star reads, but it takes a little something extra to make me absolutely love a gothic novel.
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Rebecca (1938)
Others: Mostly positive With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
- ISBN:
- 9780349019253
- Length:
- 376 pages
Genres: romance, thriller, classics
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Mixed
Loved itI always have to recommend Rebecca by Daphne dorier one of my all-time favorites this book is mysterious and a little bit haunting
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Loved itthis is one that is amazing I do think it's a Timeless piece that works just as well today as it did when it was first written... I love the twists and turns... this book is a classic for reason it is so good
Loved itthe atmosphere and the complicated characterization and the constant sense of menace throughout this book like it's so good
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Loved itI had so many misconceptions about it and I was just so pleasantly surprised with it. This was a four-star read.
Mixedthe first half of the book i would say it's maybe 50 pages too long in my opinion there's a lot of repeating and stuff but what i do like about the beginning of this book is all of the atmosphere
Loved itI loved it at the time I still think of it very fondly ... but I don't think that it's on my mind enough
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Mixedthe moments of creepiness were few and far between unfortunately so you'd get three chapters of high society nonsense which was boring as hell and I just didn't care and then you'd get one chapter where something really freaking weird happens
Loved itIt's so well done. I was completely shocked by a lot of the twists that happened in this story.
Loved itI have finally got to reading a Rebecca which was not at all what I expected it to be from what other people have said about this book but also completely fascinating and great