Is The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Worth Reading?
Ada’s Score
Stuart Turton's 2018 debut is a fiendishly clever country house mystery with a high-concept twist: the protagonist must solve a murder while reliving the same day eight times, each time inhabiting a different guest's body. The mechanics are dazzling — each host offers different information, different access, different moral complications — and Turton orchestrates them with the precision of a chess grandmaster. The novel owes obvious debts to Agatha Christie and Groundhog Day, but its ambition and execution make it entirely its own beast. Few debut novels have been this assured or this much fun.
Episode 7“The concept sounds gimmicky but it's executed with genuine brilliance. I was furiously taking notes on a second read.”
Same Murder, Different Body, Every Single Day
Stuart Turton takes the classic English country house mystery and breaks it wide open with a Groundhog Day twist that is far more clever than it sounds. You wake up in a different guest's body each morning, piecing together the same terrible night with a new set of eyes and secrets. It's dizzyingly inventive, and I dare you to put it down.
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AI reading intelligence“The concept sounds gimmicky but it's executed with genuine brilliance. I was furiously taking notes on a second read.”
Same Murder, Different Body, Every Single Day
Stuart Turton takes the classic English country house mystery and breaks it wide open with a Groundhog Day twist that is far more clever than it sounds. You wake up in a different guest's body each morning, piecing together the same terrible night with a new set of eyes and secrets. It's dizzyingly inventive, and I dare you to put it down.
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Review
The concept sounds gimmicky but it's executed with genuine brilliance. I was furiously taking notes on a second read.
Rating: 4.4 / 5
Book Details
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks Landmark
- Published
- January 1, 2019
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9781492670124
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Ada’s Score
4.4
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Common Questions About The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- Is The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle worth reading?
- The concept sounds gimmicky but it's executed with genuine brilliance. I was furiously taking notes on a second read. Ada rates it 4.4 out of 5.
- How many pages is The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle?
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is 480 pages long — around 8–9 hours at an average reading pace.
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