The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by
Stuart Turton
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
What the way to start off my New Year with a fantastic book! The story was was remarkable, entertain, suspenseful, intriguing, and very interesting. I don't believe I've ever read a book like this before, but I'm so happy I decided to go ahead and get this book.
However, this book can be confusing but if you just stay with it, it will all make sense and before you know it, you've been consumed by this story. There's so many characters that you have to keep track of, not just by name, but what they do, who they are to who, etc. etc, but that's ok, before long you're knowing why they are telling you what they are telling you, there giving you some clues to many things, that will have you thinking ahead.
The story starts out in the 1920, but at times, you would think it was around the 1800's, but really the date doesn't matter, nor really play a huge part in it except for one day. By one day, I mean Aiden Bishop will relive the same day over and over and over, but not as himself, oh no this is where you need to pay attention, each time he wakes up his 'host' is a different person, he only has eight host and each host is at this same event, Aiden has to solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. If he can't solve the whodunit by the time his last host is there, then when he wakes up again, then the loop starts all over again, but with out his memories.
This really is a fascinating book, there's a little bit fantasy, little bit of literature, little bit of magic, and a whole lot of mystery! This book will have you wanting to hurry home from work, keeping you from doing housework, keep you reading on these cold days or warm days depending on the season your reading it. You'll find yourself thinking about this book until you've picked up where you left off.
The writing of the book is really good, very interesting and unique story, well thought out as to how to keep the reader engrossed in the story. The story had a nice pace to it, not to fast for you to lose what's going on, nor to slow to where you want to skip ahead. This is going to be the book that many will still talk about in the coming year. This will be one of those books that everyone needs to read.
If your still on the fence about reading it like I was, don't waste your time thinking about just pick the book up and read it, it won't disappoint, in fact this will be the one you recommend the most to friends, family, co-workers, even the person sitting next you at the doctors office. I highly, highly recommend you give this book a try, you'll really enjoy it
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