The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

BEST BOOK EVER! After my Aras tour, I sat down and read this book from start to finish 😍😍😍😍

This book had me excited to read it every night. The way the story untangles as you read and the puzzle pieces slowly come together is an amazing piece of writing.

A hot mess of a book. It strives to be clever like an Agatha Christie novel, but there are too many characters, too many twists, and I had to force myself to read through the end.

Oh how many times I wanted to quit reading this but I just had to finish to see if it redeemed itself. Did it? Meh. It could have but it just kept going and going and going, ugh! It started great but went downhill fast. Like by Chapter 2, fast. Too many characters introduced all at once. Then the story jumps around without anything to hold on to. I’m quite annoyed. I need a drink.

The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hugo by Stuart Turton Published 2018 Summary It’s about a prison called Blackheath that an innocent man willingly goes to where he is put into 8 different hosts to solve a murder that happened 19 years. He has competitor(s) that’s also trying to solve the murder & they are competitors b/c only one of them can leave. My thoughts This book was so amazing and good. I love it. This book was everything. Even though it’s a book where the day repeats it’s so good b/c he gets put into different hosts everyday or every time his current host falls asleep. Every host has different qualities, talents, reactions etc. One will find/figure something out but then ends up with ten more questions that they will have to solve or leave for the new host to figure out. I do think that it was interesting that he didn’t get at least a/one woman host but I didn’t think about it or wonder about it until it was mentioned. Mrs. Drugde, Lucy or Millicent could have also been hosts too b/c they knew/had important info. When I finished I was on such a high, I couldn’t sleep and I didn’t even want to try, I needed more time to think about it and then I needed some other form of entertainment so I would stop thinking about it. I love that the author mentioned/love the 80’s Quantum Leap b/c I love the updated recent version of Quantum Leap and I just feel like I read this at the perfect/right time b/c if I had read it when it first came out or anytime after it came out but before 2022 I wouldn’t have had a connection with Quantum Leap or known what it was or what it was about. I also love that he mentioned Quantum Leap b/c the book was like a mix of this show and another but it really reminded me of ep 11 of Quantum Leap. The other show it reminded me of a tv show on Netflix called The I-Land.

If you like mysteries and an intriguing story, this one had me pretty much hooked from start to finish. I can’t recommend it enough.

I throughly enjoyed it, although the plot was a bit hard to follow, at least for me. Very suspenseful and lots of twists but I didn’t really like the ending. Solid 8/10.

I really enjoyed this book. It took me a bit to get absorbed in the story, but once I did I couldn’t put it down. Fun twist, a little old fashioned. It reminded me in some ways of my favorite Agatha Christie novel. I enjoyed it enough I’ll check out the authors other stories.

I am a big fan of books that force me to think of a rational ending, and this one kept me guessing and guessing!

I found the book slow in parts and hard to follow. So many characters without proper introduction but midways it improved. The book has a dreamlike quality and perhaps the author intended the confusion to add to that illusion.