Mrs. De Winter : The Sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

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Summary: Absolutely HORRIBLE!!!!
Review: This book actually deseves 0 stars! The plot is unconvincing and depressing. If you love Rebecca stay away from this horrible sequel.

Rating:
Summary: It was awful!
Review: Although Rebecca is my favorite book, I have to admit that after reading Susan Hill's sequel, Rebecca was almost ruined for me. Du Maurier ended the novel the way it should have ended -- with a sense of conclusion, but with enough left to the reader's imagination that he could imagine what happens next. We certainly didn't need Hill's novel to ruin our images of what the future held for Maxim and his new wife. Also, Du Maurier implied throughout Rebecca that after the couple finally escapes from Manderly and its secrets, they would live contently. Hill completely altered DuMaurier's characters and her message from the ending of Rebecca. I honestly wish that I had never read this book.

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Summary: A tedious read
Review: Having read Rebecca numerous times, I excitedly began this book, however, shortly found it to be a tedious read, with Susan Hill's style "not quite getting it." Her wordiness did not add to the story (as did du Maurier's), but instead seemed geared only to add pages to the book; at times I was astounded at the number of paragraphs devoted to description. Not being one to leave a book unfinished, I plodded through the entire novel, finding the ending to be unsatisfying. I would have been better to have left well enough alone -- letting my imagination create its own sequel.

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Summary: Eh, it was okay.
Review: I felt that Rebecca that should have been left the way it ended. I was sincerly depressed by the ending. I enjoyed it, Susan Hill is a profound writer but Rebecca should have been left alone.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Rebecca ended just the way it should have. It did not need a sequel. It was boring, depressing, and nothing in comparison to Rebecca. The characters did not even act the same as they did in Rebecca. It was like reading about some other people.

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Summary: boring, awful, a disappointing sequel
Review: A good book should never have a sequel, end of statement. In this one, the majority of the pages are spent talking and thinking about things the reader either could care less about or already knows about from Rebecca. The ending was stupid and not how you want it to end after reading Rebecca. Overall, it was one of the most boring and pointless books that I have ever read.

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Summary: This sequel should never have been written
Review: Rebecca is a classic. Classics should not have sequels. Just as there should never have been a sequel to Gone with the Wind, there should not be a sequel to Rebecca.

Rating:
Summary: Not that good
Review: The story was ok. It wasn't that great like I hoped it would be. Susan Hill did an average job, in my opinion. In the story, Maxim De Winter is an arrogant, and selfish, and thoughtless man, sometimes. And thats not true. The ending in my opinion was pretty much predictable. Maybe they should write another sequel, this time a different theme. More with Daphne's style, and plot...

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I felt that the style was very true of something that Du Maurier would write, but the end greatly disappointed me. I feel that Maxim de Winter was too strong a person to kill himself, he didn't give in before so why would he now.

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Summary: flaccid sequel to the incomparable Rebecca
Review: The nameless narrator of Rebecca chronicles the downs of her marriage with Maxim DeWinter 10 years after the burning of Manderley. The couple have been abroad, leading a nomadic existence, fleeing old ghosts. But the nesting urge is strong in our heroine, and on a visit to England she takes a fancy to an unpretentious country estate. Then, to her chagrin, they're off again, to Istanbul, but for her birthday, Maxim surprises her with the deed to the estate. Back to England, where she potters around the garden and longingly imagines the children she hopes they'll have one day. When the blessed event/s fail to occur, she goes up to London to consult a doctor and there runs into the odious, now dissolute Jack Favell, who still has it in for Maxim. The plot creaks along, becalmed by long stretches of interior monologue. Mrs. Danvers makes a wooden reappearance, Maxim never demonstrates one likeable, warm or witty moment, the heroine chickens out of multiple opportunities to show some backbone, and by the time tragedy comes at the end few readers will care.