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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
The Rules of Blackheath Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin . . . Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . . The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.… (mer)
This didn't land for me. I tend to care more about character and place than plot in my mystery reading and I found this book overly long and tedious. However, if you love the puzzle aspect of a mystery this might be the book for you. I've seen references to Agatha Christie but I think the tone was closer to the melodrama of The Woman in White.
Kind of an annoying read, but worst of all was the narrator - James Cameron Stewart. Awful. His grating vocalizations made me give up. I thought I'd like the conceit of the book but it just made me annoyed. ( )
That was... a lot. I couldn’t put it down, it got under my skin and dug tunnels through my brain that I’m probably going to spend weeks trying to sort through. I kept thinking I had it figured out and I was wrong (almost) every time. Usually best selling thriller/mysteries don’t do much for me, this was a rare exception. ( )
SPOILER ALERT: I'll save everyone who wants to read this book the trouble of wasting your time, only to be frustrated and disappointed - Anna did it.
I have no idea what the hype is about this book. I got about 25% through and just couldn't go on. I didn't care one iota about any of the characters or the story itself. I had my reservations about the plot even before buying the book. I'm not a big fan of "Groundhog Day" type stories. But, given the author, I took a chance. Big mistake. Evelyn dies 8 times in the book, as we all know - as for who did it? I didn't really care. The story was meandering, totally not interesting and I had no desire to muddle my way through another 280 pages just to get to find out the answer. ( )
Wow. This is a mind spinner of a book. It is one of those novels where you’d really like to pull it all apart and figure out what and when and who- time travelling is challenging to read, but as an author it is amazing. Evelyn Hardcastle dies seven times but honestly that is a small part of a cloud of intersecting stories, any of which could have been a novel on their own. It is brilliant, difficult to read if you are doing ANYTHING else, and definitely worth the challenge! ( )
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To my parents, who gave me everything and asked for nothing. My sister, first and fiercest of my readers from the bumblebees onwards. And my wife, whose love, encouragement, and reminders to look up from my keyboard once in a while, made this book so much more than I thought it could be.
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The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise, and it won’t be broken by us. That’s the nature of the trap we’re caught in.
Evidently, Rashton made quite an impression last night, because my passage through the house is punctuated by hearty handshakes and backslaps. Greetings lie scattered in my wake like tossed rocks, their goodwill bringing me out in bruises.
Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.
This time the past will hold her hand and squeeze. Memory will murder her.
Anger's solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity's a fog you can become lost within. (7%)
"God no, terrible things, hospitals" he says, aghast, "Sickness and death swept into corners, diseases curled up in the beds with the patients." (10%)
Freed from the house with a slaughter to enjoy, they seem alsmost human. (11%)
The children I knew have shed their skins and slithered into society. (13%)
Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature. (32%)
A face is a mask of another sort... (37%)
Her doubst have crawled under my skin, and they are beginning to itch. (40%)
... I've read my Dante... not all hells are created equal. (53%)
... every man is in a cage of his own making. (63%)
The room has the atmosphere of a troubled sleep, the sweat of nightmares as yet unwashed by fresh air. (68%)
If Rashton and Ravencourt have taught me anything, it's to value my hosts' talents rather than lament theirs limitations. (86%)
The Plague Doctor claimed Blackheath was meant to rehabilitate us, but bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains. (93%)
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be... A chance to be braver and kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today. Every day after this one is a gift. (97%)
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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
The Rules of Blackheath Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin . . . Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . . The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.
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