A review by gcarreira
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

4.0

My main complaint about this book is that the mechanics of the time loop are not super well explained at the beginning of the book (or maybe I was just not smart enough to understand it right away). That's the main reason why I took off a star other than that there are a LOT of characters to keep track of and it can get very overwhelming. Every day for 8 days, the main character, Aiden Bishop, switches bodies at a party. What I didn't understand was that the EXACT same day is repeating, and Aiden is just seeing it from a different point of view. So he converges with his other selves doing different things on different days throughout each day. My strange inability to understand this concept from the get-go made understanding the first 150 pages of this book a nightmare.
After that, the book really came into focus and I was really able to enjoy it. I don't read a lot of mystery, but I really enjoyed this and consider it the best mystery I've ever read. Highly recommend, except don't do what I did and completely miss the main plot point and then wind up confused for the first half of the book.