You don't have that burning desire to get to the next page and the next. Jamaica Inn's pacing is a headlong rush into the world of smuggling where you briefly come up for air on a rare walk with Mary Yellan over the moors but on the whole the book doesn't let up till the last page.īut knowing what that last page contains makes the rush loose it's impact. What struck me most re-reading these books was that the pacing of Jamaica Inn doesn't lend itself to a re-read as much as Rebecca does. Your entire experience is different to the first time. Books can change greatly on a re-read you see things you missed, you might notice the pacing more, you know the ending, if you can remember it that is, and therefore can pick up on foreshadowing. Besides being the only books by Du Maurier that I've read both Jamaica Inn and Rebecca are re-reads for me. At this precise moment in time these are the only books I've read by Daphne Du Maurier so far that aren't comprised of short stories.
Jamaica Inn and Rebecca are two interesting books to read back to back. This wrecked life she is living can not sustain itself and something has Itself when she starts to fall for her Uncle's younger brother Jem. Though soon Mary learns how easy it is for history to repeat Mary starts to dream of a way out of her situationįor herself and her aunt, taking what solace she can from wandering the Learn the reasons why Jamaica Inn is given such a wide berth. There Maryįinds a shell of a woman and a terrifying brute of a man in a run down Now reside at Jamaica Inn where her husband is proprietor. Mary thought that her Aunt lived a quiet life in a small townīut she is told in a curt letter from Patience that she and her husband Yet before she even sets out on her journey she Meet her Aunt Patience, the bubbly beauty of memory, and her new Life behind and travels north to the Cornish moors. Mary Yellan abides by her mother's dying wish and leaves her farm and To Buy (different edition than one reviewed)
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