by Stuart Turton
Libby audiobook 17 hours
Read by James Cameron Stewart
Published: 2018
Genre: murder mystery with a fantasy twist
I'm not sure how to write about this book. It was strange. And pretty violent. But I was curious to find out the "whodunnit" aspect and so I finished the whole book.
From Amazon: "The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem. Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked-room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense."
What I liked: the clues, the intellectual challenge of trying to figure out who was the murderer, Aiden as a character
What I disliked: the odd illogic / impossibility of living within several "hosts" and repeating the same day multiple times, the creepiness of the Footman and his psycho love of causing pain, the too numerous characters to the point of not even trying to figure out who's who, the fact that I was sucked in and completed a 17 hour audiobook!
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