A review by bookchew
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele

3.0

This book is marketed as a modern response to Rebecca, one that explores how gender roles have shifted since Rebecca’s publication. I am not sure it achieves what it sets out to do. Its themes jostle about—from dealing with the ghost of the ex wife, to the menace of the teenage daughter, and the precarious situation of taking on a new spouse’s life—but these themes (and the very blah main character grappling with them) don’t feel fully realized. The story is relatively boring and slow moving, until the last few chapters which, by contrast, are riveting. There could have been so much more here. Fittingly, with the specter of the original—and exceptional—novel (Rebecca), this one fell flat.