Hi! I just finished Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and absolutely loved it.
I loved how unusual and layered the narrator is. The writing made me feel like I was spiraling right alongside her, questioning everything. The slow, creeping unraveling of the mystery kept pulling me in, and Manderley itself felt like a living, breathing presence. So eerie, beautiful, and suffocating.
I loved the tension simmering beneath everything. The sense of quiet dread, the jealousy, the way the past refused to stay buried. There was something so haunting about how identity and insecurity are explored by the author, and how easily reality starts to blur! I’d love recommendations of anything similar!!
Other books I love are The Goldfinch, Crime and Punishment, the Secret History, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects.
by shanklymrshankly
1 Comment
You’d probably love My Cousin Rachel, also Du Maurier. Same kind of creeping paranoia and an unreliable narrator you can’t quite pin down. It’s maybe even more unsettling than Rebecca honestly