"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..." It has been a long time since I remembered walking about like Belle with my nose in my book, dodging daily items and escaping to another world and I can thank Mr Turton for taking me into a lush fever dream that I couldn't put down in parts. From page one the reader is showed connections with a series of events that could lead to possible redemption but every additional step after the opening is pitted with multiple consequences and a mad "footman" who will not stop to eliminate any trace of sanity. If this book sounds like a doozy you are absolutely correct, it's a dark tangled maze of actions that circle back around to 11PM in another place and time. Depending on how patient the reader is they will be in for a real surprise as The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle consumes your thoughts and slips in and out of something familiar and something futuristic in the making. For others, who just want out of the maze and start to notice the system collapsing upon itself toward the latter chapters, you may want to just stop at a certain point, call The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle brilliant and call it a long day. It's up to you but for me, the ending was completely disappointing as it carried some mixed confusing messages, left lists of questions unanswered and honestly I'm not entirely sure of the point to everything in these pages. Like I said just call it brilliant and a long day up to a certain point or wait for the film that will surely follow this book (hopefully they switch some things around in the final cut). -purchased and read on kindle EGP/September 2018 Comments are closed.
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