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Lädt ... The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2019. Auflage)von Ruth Ware (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 3.5 stars. This is probably my favorite of Ruth Ware's books, but it felt like it needed some editing. I love the spooky Gothic mystery, the family secrets, the way no one seems the likely villain until the end. ( ) I truly enjoyed a lot of this book! I liked the main character, Hal, a smart and resourceful young women who decides to fake her way into a family will. I liked the settings, from the salty Brighton beaches to the rundown family manor house. And I liked the tarot talk, and the ongoing themes of crafting ones own “luck” and really understanding what’s in the cards. That being said, I felt like the Big Mystery got a little lost in the works. It was only a couple chapters after Hal meets the whole family that I had a pretty good idea of what happened (I was right) and I feel like there just weren’t any other options to what it could have been. The first half of the book is stronger in this respect; most of the tension evaporates after that point. This is more of a slow burning family suspense drama that it is a straight up mystery, and I think I went into it with different expectations. SPOILERS AHEAD FOR REST OF REVIEW!! To be perfectly honest, one of the biggest reasons for why I didn’t like it was because it reminded me of my least favorite book of all time, “Flowers in the Attic”. I loathe books that try to romanticize incest, and I felt that happening here. Not only did this plot point become easy to figure out, it was just kind of wrapped up in the end with all the family shrugging and being like “Welp, what can ya do? Incest just happens!” Frankly, if it had been ANY other thing that incest then this would have been a 4-star book for me, but again, I just hate incest plots in general soooooo🤷🏻♀️ keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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