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A review by immakingt0ast
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Did not finish book.
I can't lie, I found this insufferably dull. But, I also am not a fan of Agatha Christie and I tried to read Life After Life earlier this year and found it unbearably confusing and the writing style just... ugh. I'm not sure why I thought that I would enjoy this novel. There was a lot that I liked about it, and maybe I would have liked it if I had just powered through, but I made it almost 20% of the way in and the main character (Apparently it's supposed to be someone named Aiden, not Dr Bell, whoever that is) had not even been introduced. I do wholeheartedly agree that someone that likes Agatha Christie and Kate Atkinson would enjoy this novel (and I would recommend it to those people)... however I did not.
I honestly thought the whole thing was kind of a disappointment, because I just browsed the reviews and apparently there is body swapping involved? And he has 8 days to solve a murder but every day he's in a different body? Okay that's cool as hell but why did I not understand this when I was reading it? Did I just get a different copy before all the cool shit was added in or am I just really dumb? Maybe you have to slog through another 50 pages before things start making sense, which I did not do? How frustrating.
I honestly thought the whole thing was kind of a disappointment, because I just browsed the reviews and apparently there is body swapping involved? And he has 8 days to solve a murder but every day he's in a different body? Okay that's cool as hell but why did I not understand this when I was reading it? Did I just get a different copy before all the cool shit was added in or am I just really dumb? Maybe you have to slog through another 50 pages before things start making sense, which I did not do? How frustrating.