I had two attempts at reading this book but never quite got in to it. I'm desperate to know what the fuss is about so I may pick it up for a third time - the hype around this book has definitely piqued my interest and the unusual plot makes me think I will love it.

I was lucky enough to read this brilliant book via @netgalley a little while ago and I loved it!! Stuart Turton's weaves a brilliant mystery that keeps you guessing right to the end, highly recommended.

Where do I begin? When I first embarked on this book I must admit I was slightly confused, much like Aiden Bishop/Sebastian Bell. After the first few chapters things started to become clearer and then I found it hard to put the book down.

I initially started taking notes just in case I got lost as the story does jump around between the characters quite a bit. However after meeting the first three characters, that Aiden embodied, I felt there was no longer any need for the notes. Stuart Turton does a great job of helping you follow the story line without being repetitive, I actually enjoyed the time travel and body hopping element and never found myself lost of confused.

Out of all the characters that Aiden became my favourites were Gold, Rashton and Dance. In these bodies I thought Aiden started to become more gutsy and focused. He made difficult decisions and being the remaining three hosts it was where he made the most progress and so the story picked up even more pace.I also liked the other hosts and elements, such as Anna that were included and the teamwork that came from that. Those things made it more than just a simple who dunnit.

To say this book plays with your head would be an understatement, you’d be more accurate in saying it blows your head completely apart! I didn’t even try to play detective during this book, like I usually do as it was clear from the start that this was a complex and multilayered case. I was proven right and once I got to the end I was flabbergasted and speechless, there was no way that I could of drawn that conclusion. Even now if I wanted to try and explain the ending I still feel that I’d miss some key information or get myself in a muddle trying to make sense of it. It all made sense when I read it but now my mind is mush!

It has been a while since I’ve stayed up late to finish a book and this was worth every bit of exhaustion I may feel later today. I would agree that you need to concentrate as there are vital clues you don’t want to miss but it was still a very enjoyable read.

I really wanted to love this but unfortunately it was a little too confusing and complex for my tastes. I am the type of reader who settles in with a novel to switch off my brain and relax, and "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" is for a different type of reader: one who enjoys puzzles and cerebral mysteries requiring them to unravel cognitive knots. Not for me, but I know many readers would love it.

An ingenius genre bending book that breaks all the rules and leaves you with a breath taking twist. It's impossible to pigeonhole this book or say too much about it without ruining it. Let's just say it deserves the awards and buzz it built up around it.

Brilliant. Amazing. Outstanding. The best time travel read EVER. There is no end to this author’s talents. I loved it and really can’t wait to read his next book!

A fantastic book let down by a poor ending, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle had it all - a twist on the classic crime novel - emulating Agatha Christie - with added science fiction. It promised to be one of the better crime debuts, but unfortunately too much exposition towards the end of the novel let it down. Turton knows how to craft a yarn and I'd be interested in seeing what he comes up with in future, but sometimes a writer should trust their reader and not seek to explain the world away.

An enthralling and completely original book. The characterisation, world and plot are all excellent from the start. The author provides eight perspectives, and makes everyone feel real and distinct. Thoroughly recommended for fans of literature, mysteries, time loops or great writing.

I think I made a huge error … I read this book via audio. This book was far too twisting and turney to read on audiobook. It would be similar to someone describing the film ‘Inception’ scene by scene. I had no idea what was happening 90% of the time. The bits that I managed to grasp I really enjoyed but I feel that I missed out on a lot of the cleverness of the book. The concept was brilliant, the plot was ridiculously engaging, and the characters were flawed. 
However, it was unrealistic in the sense that the main character, Aiden, was coping very well trapped at this creepy stately home, full of strangers, reliving his days trapped in different peoples bodies!
Also, just a warning, this book contains vulgar descriptions and serious hate talk regarding weight. I don't know if this was to fit in with the ‘thoughts of the times’ but it did seem unnecessarily cruel 

So overall, it is a great read. But don't ruin it like I did, read the physical copy, take your time and keep track of the characters and I think it would be a worthwhile read.

After a year that has been taken over my blog tours, I have found very little time reading my own books. So at the Christmas period, I found some time! I gave Rae and Eva the chance to choose me any book, any book that I should read..so they chose this. I can’t repeat the conversation because there was a lot of shouting that I hadn’t already read this! Psst…there may have even been some swearing! I know right! So logged onto Goodreads to mark it as being read and then I spied the page count! I mean how many pages?! I started to get a cold sweat now I knew I wouldn’t read my book total of 180 it was going to take me forever..ok after I got over the drama and the shouting at the girls I settled down and opened the book.

I will be completely honest, I wasn’t gripped from the start, and I was worried it might be a case of a book that has been over-hyped to me and I wouldn’t be able to read it. Eva told me to put my big girl pants on or she would disown me so I went back on and something magical happened…

I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!!

I mean it took me a while to read it as I was on the run down to Xmas and I had been out and about but when I had the chance to sit and read, I sat and read. I got annoyed with interruptions, I got annoyed when I couldn’t read it. I was completely 1000% hooked!

Seven deaths is one of the most amazing, clever books I have read in a long time! How Mr Turton has managed to wind 8 lives into 1 story in such a unique way = mind blown!

I loved how Mr Aiden lived a different whole life each day and when all the characters started working together. I didn’t get confused I was just sitting there trying to figure it all with Aiden. How did someone know that Aiden would be in a certain place at a certain time? It was just so clever and still hurts my brain trying to figure it all out! There were certain bits where sweeping comments had been made and then later on in the book I was like OMG I remember that from before!

Even with solving the murder, I did not have a scooby! I mean how could you! Just when you think you were close to solving it something new happened! I can hand on my heart say I had zero eureka moments, I didn’t even bother trying to figure out what was going on I just followed Aiden, Anna and the Doctor!

I think this would be a fantastic book to see on the big screen. Yeah, it’s a huge book, so you know 2 hours 40-3 hours would be perfect as I think it would work wonders. It’s a bit of a Poirot story if Poirot could change bodies every day!

I will admit I was bereft at the ending, in one hand it was satisfying and on the other hand no it frigging wasn’t! I wanted more, but I do not know what that more I want is. My world has been turned upside down and inside out. I have been recommending it loads to people but trying to explain what this book about just confused them, I was like “Well you have this guy, he has to solve a murder and it’s like Groundhog Day and it’s just awesome when he meets himself but doesn’t know it’s him and then has to live the day as someone new but no one else knows. Oh, and someone is trying to kill and then there’s is a girl.” And through my excited babble, they just stare at me so what I have resorted to is “Just go and buy the book”

I have heard that Turton is writing another book. I don’t know what it’s about but yeah I want to be first in line to read it. He has blown my world away with this book and I need an author like this in my life. Rae and Eva you work here is done! Now can we be friends again?!

I really enjoyed this book, fantastic premise and well executed.  A definite must read!  A bendy, twisty mind stretching whodunit, Essentially a classic crime drama with a twist of magical realism thrown in to keep you on your toes..  Well written plot that probably needs to be read in big chunks to really feel the benefit of the fast pace.  Will definitely be recommending this to our customers.

An old fashioned murder mystery with a huge difference. I'm always attracted by books that have an unusual narrative so thought this would be perfect for me. I did enjoy it, however, I think for most people it's a book that would need to be read when they've time to linger.  I feel I didn't enjoy this book as much as I could because I could only snatch a few paragraphs at a time. It was well written, and it felt authentic to the time period.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bloomsbury for this electronic ARC.
This follows an unnamed protagonist who over the course of seven days wakes up in different bodies and is tasked with the job of solving the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in exchange of being set free from this absurd purgatory state. This is Groundhog Day meets Agatha Christie. I thoroughly enjoyed this intricate locked room mystery. The prose was gripping and there is a whole cast of characters. Despite the elaborate set-up I found this is an immersive read. An atmospheric, clever and original with plenty of twists and turns. 5/5

An incredibly compelling murder mystery with a twist. Gripping until the very end, this thrilling tale borrows much from Agatha Christie; from the old crumbling mansion setting to the cast of untrustworthy characters. 

The unique concept was utterly refreshing and the reader is left feeling as unsettled as our protagonist. And wonderful to hear that they will be making a tv adaptation of this!

I really enjoyed tihs title - I like the concept of waking up in another body or reliving the same day over again. It took me a while to realise what was going on, that Aiden had awoken that morning in someone else's body (but I guess it took him even longer to realise!), but once I got the gist of him waking up in a different body each morning, I was intrigued to read on - characters cross eachother, events that you know may/may not have an impact on the day etc. 

All in all a great read, highly recommened!

One of my top books of the year and a well deserved Costa winner! Twisty, turny, spooky, thrilling, dark, weird, I absolutely adored this story and would happily have stayed lost in this wonderful book.

It has taken me too long but I am so glad that I finally got myself around to reading this one! I started it a few times but I think you need to be in the right place as it requires a great deal of concentration to be able to follow the complex, twisty plot. Although many of the classic mystery elements are here it's like nothing I've ever read before and I am in awe of Turton's ability to construct such a fiendishly complicated and inventive thriller. I will be buying it for everyone this Christmas and I cannot wait to read what Turton does next!

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle opens with the narrator waking up in the forest, covered in blood, in a different body and no idea what is going on. He makes it front door of a large country house and from there he discovers that's he's Aiden Bishop and that he has 8 chances to stop the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. Each day he will wake in a different host body and have the chance to relive the day and hopefully stop the murder. He has some advantages (he remembers his memories from the previous days and which host he is so he can set up and change scenarios) and disadvantages (He's hindered by his hosts' physical attributes, like being overweight or old as well as the hosts' personalities like their temper or impulsivity). Plus there's other obstacles in his way to further complicate things. Can he solve the puzzle on time? And what will happen if he doesn't?

I loved this book! It sucked me right in. It's like Gosford Park and Agatha Christie meets Inception and Groundhog Day. A murder mystery with a twist. It was really atmospheric and descriptive, I loved finding out who the new hosts were and was constantly guessing what was going on and how things would work out. Of course I wasn't anywhere close to getting it right! Complex and thrilling, I'll definitely reach for it again in the future.

This was such an enthralling and addictive book! It's hard to believe that such a complex and captivating book is a debut. The plot is so intricate and the characters so very real, I found it incredibly hard to put down.

This is without a doubt one of my favourite books of 2018. Definitely one that lives up to the hype and I can't wait to see what Stu Turton does next!

Brilliant book, just the right level of suspense. I have chosen this to be a featured title in our Christmas catalogue and intend to sell very many copies. 
The end was even more satisfying than I expected it to be - questions which I had assumed would go unanswered, like how this strange world is at all connected to our real one, were all resolved. I didn't expect a truly happy ending. This was very satisfying and I look forward to a next title from the author.