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Take a diabolical voyage on the high seas!

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

January 13, 2022 by TylerDFC 1 Comment

The year is 1634, and the United East India Company is the wealthiest, and most powerful, trade company in the world. The most profitable spice route is between Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) and the Company headquarters in Amsterdam where the ruling board of the Company, the Gentlemen 17, place profit over all other considerations. This route takes eight months to cross and is perilous and arduous. In Batavia, the massive cargo-passenger ship Saardam is about to set sail for Amsterdam with a mysterious cargo, along with […]

If Agatha Christie Took Psychedelics

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

November 14, 2021 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

In the beginning, I fell passionately in love with Stuart Turton’s The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I can’t say much without ruining the book, but suffice to say it involves a trove of characters, a murder, and an ingenious set up. The main character is a kaleidoscope, and the characters that revolve around him similarly shift and change. As the characters race to find out who kills Evelyn Hardcastle, old histories and painful stories start to bubble to the surface. By the time […]

Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

October 31, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton was recommended/chosen by my Mocha Girls Read book club in May. I definitely heard the hype for his book in several book groups along with Cannonball Read. Thus, I’m reviewing it for the “Rec’d” bingo square. I was confused as to why they changed the US title to “7 1/2 Deaths” from the original “Seven Deaths”. Apparently, the publisher wanted to distinguish it from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I […]

In the cold clear light of day down here, everyone’s a monster

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

August 1, 2021 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Bingo square: Travel (from Jakarta to Amsterdam) A couple years ago I read Stuart Turton’s The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I didn’t like it, exactly, but I also couldn’t put it down and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. When I saw a review of The Devil and the Dark Water on CBR, I checked it out from the library almost immediately. I knew, even if I didn’t really like it, it was going to be an exciting, fascinating, un-put-down-able ride. As it […]

Stuart Turton is an imaginative little turd. I might be a fan for life. #CBRBINGO – Reader’s Choice

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

July 14, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 28/30 This was one of the last books I read in my thirty day book binge, and I think it says something about how good it was that even though I had some book fatigue going on, I happily and quickly finished this in less than two days. It’s not a huge book, but it’s not small, either. Like Turton’s first book, this is a mystery at heart, and also like his first book, there are some complicating factors […]

Don’t you hate when a book starts out strong only to disappoint you?

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

March 14, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I so thoroughly enjoyed 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Stuart Turton’s latest novel, a mystery set aboard a 17th century East Indiaman trade ship sailing from Batavia (now Jakarta) to Amsterdam. Within pages of meeting Sammy Pipps, a detective or “thief-catcher” of Holmesian perception, and his bodyguard/Watson/Boswell Arent Hayes, I was hooked. That’s the difficulty of strong openings: The rest of the novel has to live up to them. Now I’m sadly in the position of […]

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