A review by abbie_
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

dark medium-paced

2.0

Honestly so disappointed in this collection from Daphne 😭 it’s been ages since I read one of her works and the amount of casual offensive remarks in these stories is ridiculous. Racism, ableism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia… it’s hard to tell whether the characters have these views when it’s just woven casually into the narration. In the first story, a rabid murderer turns out to be a woman with dwarfism, a deaf woman is another villain, a woman suspects a group of men may be gay and is immediately outraged and disgusted. I know, ‘a different time’ but that’s no excuse. 

Only two stars because Not After Midnight was pretty good, some decent tension built. Otherwise *raspberry noise*. 

*didn’t read The Breakthrough as I’ve read this previously so my comments don’t pertain to that story!
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