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Jun 04, 2017DBRL_KrisA rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Oh, I'm not gonna make friends with this review. I mean, there were definitely parts I liked - the costume ball and Mrs. Danvers' little bit of revenge; the suspenseful scene at the doctor's - but there was a lot of boring stuff in between. The narrator is a wimpy little thing with no backbone. Woman, you're the lady of the house; you're Madame Freekin' De Winter - stand up to Mrs Danvers! And when the first Madame De Winter's drunk cousin shows up, and tries to bully his way around, drinking their whisky and stealing their cigarettes, no one kicks him out of the house? I bet Frith was just waiting for the order. "Just give me the word, just give me the word..." All in all, this was a decent book. A couple of big surprises, a couple of fun characters. But definitely not a book I'm excited to have read.