Tucker Gergen - The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcasle

The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcasle is an interesting book. It starts you of in a forest with no memories yelling the name Ann. You are beaten up and one of your presumed attackers gives you a compass pointing a direction and you follow to a big mansion with many people inside. A doctor checks you out and says you will be fine and will gain your memories back in a few months. In the mean time you make friends around the house. You also try to learn what happened you you and Ann. 

When you are get back from a walk and are resting in your bed a man in a strange costume approaches you. He tells you you have 7 days and 7 bodies to find out who will Evelyn Hardcastle at 11:00am and then you can escape this trap. Whenever you go to sleep, die, or it is pasts midnight you switch bodies. If you fail you die permanently. There are two other people competing as the same time as you and the person to get it right first, wins and escape the mansion. 

You later find out each body has a history, advantages and disadvantages. Some are smarter than others, some can barley walk, one is the head of the house hold and can get whatever he wants. Another can’t talk to anyone because he is shun by everyone around him.

Because all of the bodies are moving at once you come up with a plan to talk to yourself in a future body that has more information and you come up with other clever plans as such.

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a great, but slow book. It takes its time to tell you the premise, over 50 pages in and I still didn’t know the idea of the book. But it does this well. It slowly lays out clues over the course of 450 pages. I still haven’t finished the book, but I could not recommend it more. Especially when in the summer we will have much more time to read.