"Last night Rebekah tried to murder me again."
"When the heart rules the body, it will always betray even the soundest, wisest corners of your mind."
"Throughout his confession, I passed through every emotion: fear, confusion, anger, resentment. But one rose above the rubble, a disolute kind of joy."
I read Rebecca back in 2016, and this book is exactly what I've been needing since then. However, I made a mistake when I started this book...I didn't approach it as its own work. I knew ahead of time it was a modern telling of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, and so I thought about the original until around chapter twenty. So in the last nine chapters, I read this like something completely separate from the original novel, and wow! Let me go ahead and say that I will be rereading it one day and when I do, I will put the original novel out of my mind. Then I'm sure my overall rating will change from 4 stars to 5.
This author did a fantastic job putting this story into modern society. I've wondered since reading Rebecca if it could be done, and I didn't think it could, but Lisa Gabriele made it happen.
She never gives the new Mrs. Winter a name, a tribute to the original novel that I'm so glad she kept. Giving her a name would completely change everything.
I never saw the ending coming. Once I got to the last few chapters, I couldn't put it down. Of course, I had theories and guesses as to what I thought would happen. And boy was I wrong! The ending was a pleasant twist.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I can't wait to reread it AND the original.
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