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Daphne du Maurier enthralls me. I have inhaled 8 of her books in the last few weeks, and this one ranks among my favorites. I love her ability to write eerie, foreboding and brooding stories without any gore or sensationalism. I love that she writes stories about obsession and intrigue, and builds tension deftly and simply through her magical prose. I love that the locations in her stories are vividly described allowing me to see the places with accuracy and ease. All in all, I love everything a
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I LOVED this book. I was hooked from the beginning! It was suspenseful from the first pages to the end.
Rebecca is such an amazing book that I keep thinking all of du Maurier's other novels must be just as great. Sadly, they don't seem to be. My Cousin Rachel was good. Frenchman's Creek was a huge embarrassment - simply awful. Jamaica Inn is just meh.
It's billed as a suspenseful romance. I figured out the real bad guy of the suspense plot as soon as he was introduced. So yeah, not so suspenseful.
As for the romance - cue retching sound. Just terrible! I guess because the book was written in 1936, ...more
It's billed as a suspenseful romance. I figured out the real bad guy of the suspense plot as soon as he was introduced. So yeah, not so suspenseful.
As for the romance - cue retching sound. Just terrible! I guess because the book was written in 1936, ...more
Jan 15, 2017
Shay
marked it as to-read
