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Daphne du Maurier is a wonder at weaving tales of psychological suspense featuring charming women with manipulative, dark hearts. I loved reading "Rebecca", and now "My Cousin Rachel". When Ambrose Ashley dies under questionable circumstances, his widow Rachel visits Philip Ashley, the young heir of Ambrose's large estate. Although Philip has suspicions about Ambrose's death, he is soon infatuated with Rachel. He's so enchanted by the beautiful widow that he ignores all the warning signs that sh
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Ooh, this was good. And WOW, what a villain. YIKES.
And I don’t mean Rachel. If you are Team Philip, FIGHT ME, and also, did you even read this?
The book starts as a mystery…. Pompous woman-hater Ambrose unexpectedly marries Rachel and dies shortly afterwards. Is Rachel a murderer?. Ignorant woman-hating little shit Philip certainly thinks so, and fantasizes about humiliating and destroying her. He knows he is right, and cannot be convinced otherwise.
And then, he changes his mind. And still, he kn ...more
And I don’t mean Rachel. If you are Team Philip, FIGHT ME, and also, did you even read this?
The book starts as a mystery…. Pompous woman-hater Ambrose unexpectedly marries Rachel and dies shortly afterwards. Is Rachel a murderer?. Ignorant woman-hating little shit Philip certainly thinks so, and fantasizes about humiliating and destroying her. He knows he is right, and cannot be convinced otherwise.
And then, he changes his mind. And still, he kn ...more
After the unexpected death of his cousin abroad, a naive and sheltered young Cornish man deals with the arrival of the mysterious widow to his house and into his own life. Did she have a hand in his cousin's death? What are her intentions now? Typically of Daphne du Maurier, the story is beautifully, excruciatingly tense at times, and narrator Philip Ashley--loathsomely arrogant and misogynistic, childishly foolish, desperately mercurial and lonely in his feelings--is both fascinating and repell
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