This review contains affiliate links, which earn me a small commission when you click and purchase, at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting my small business and allowing me to continue providing you a reliable resource for clean book ratings.
He wakes up in the woods and has no memories — no idea where he is, who he is or what he’s doing. He only remembers the name Anna.
Thus begins a day that Aiden Bishop lives eight times, in the bodies of eight different people. He’s stuck on a crumbling-down estate in England in 1925. Evelyn Hardcastle, the oldest daughter of the family, has returned from living in France, and her parents have thrown a party and gathered together many old acquaintances. But late that night, Evelyn is murdered. Aiden is tasked with finding out who the killer was. He’s been through thousands of these eight-day “loops,” waking up at the beginning of each loop with no memories. All because he has never solved the murder. And that’s his only way of ever escaping this nightmare.
If that weren’t enough, each host seems to have something to hide. And evil is just hanging in the air, danger and darkness lurking around every corner. He does seem to have one friend. And one mysterious watcher who may or may not be helping him.
This is the coolest book. It’s a murder mystery but with a “Groundhog Day”-type twist. It’s a mystery who did the killing, why Aiden is there in the first place and what this whole nightmare is even for. It’s a solid 500 pages and I just tore through it in huge chunks of reading because it was so fascinating and gripping and, dare I say it, unique. I don’t want to say a whole lot more other than what I have already. Dig in!
Rated: Moderate. There’s just a handful of mild and moderate language. Sexual content is limited to one scene where a couple wake up and they had been intimate previously, to references to a longtime affair but no details, and information that one character has a history of forcing himself on women. There is some reference to drug use and one character dealing drugs. Violence is scattered throughout, with just a few somewhat gory but brief references. There is one character who pops up briefly here and there and is just eager to kill and hurt his victims (just scarily sadistic). I almost rated this a mild, but it was a bit closer to moderate for the violence.
Click here to purchase your copy of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle on Amazon.
*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
