On returning to her stall, Hal, full of guilt from the reading, passes by a donation area for The Lighthouse Project, a drug and rehabilitation in Brighton. After an unusual reading, the woman pays far too much, and Hal tries, and fails, to pay back the overpayment to the woman. The woman is asking about her estranged son who has “started dealing” and keeps asking “what should I do?” (34). She is desperate to make money, yet at the start of the book, has an interesting interaction with a customer.
I truly enjoyed following Hal’s character at the start of the novel. The decrepit estate property truly sets the scene for a fantastic thriller or mystery. Ware’s novel is full of twists and turns, and just the right element of mystery and creepiness, so the novel should have been perfect for me. Unsurprisingly, The Washington Post calls Ware’s novel “a perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.” Having just read Rebecca, I was, well, thrilled for this promising thriller. Warren would be a slightly more modern version of du Maurier’s creepy, cold, overbearing housekeeper, Mrs. Westaway, the dead woman who seems to loom over every character, is not unlike the late Rebecca from the classic gothic novel. Warren seems to echo the classic gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier her hatred of Hal contrasted with her dedication and adoration toward the late Mrs. Warren, immediately sets the tone for the novel, from giving commands to her no-nonsense attitude, especially toward Hal. The suspicious and begrudging housekeeper, Mrs. Westaway’s huge, cold, gloomy, Trespassen house. When Hal is contacted about a large inheritance in her name, Hal takes a chance and spends practically her last bit of money to travel to the funeral, and goes on to Mrs. I genuinely felt worried about Hal, as she struggled to make ends meet while outrunning a loaner. Reading tarot cards isn’t necessarily a moneymaker, and due to this, she is falling behind on bills and is being followed by a man who loaned her some money at a high interest rate.
Ware does an excellent job of setting high stakes. When she is invited to a distant relative’s funeral, Hal spends practically all of her money traveling to the funeral in hopes of gaining a bit of inheritance. Westaway starts off with Hal, a young fortuneteller who is in desperate need of money. She calls the novel cinematic and engaging, and the best of Ware’s books so far. One of my favorite book bloggers, BooksandLala gave the book 4.5 stars, so I had to give it a shot. A thriller I was seeing all over social media (especially BookTube) is The Death of Mrs. I love a good horror movie, or even some suspense in a movie or book, so it should be no surprise that I started thrillers. I’ve recently fallen into the terrifying and bizarre world of thrillers.
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