“A stylish, highly original and completely addictive take on du Maurier’s Rebecca. Read it!” —Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door“Dark and richly atmospheric. . . A bewitching novel about love, lies, and the ghosts that never quite leave us alone.” –Bustle Some secrets never stay buried After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded … whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter—a wealthy politician and recent widower—and a life of luxury she’s never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Max’s beautiful first wife Rebekah, who haunts the young woman’s imagination and feeds her uncertainties, while his very alive teenage daughter Dani makes her life a living hell. She soon realizes there is no clear place for her in this twisted little family: Max and Dani circle each other like cats, a dynamic that both repels and fascinates her, and he harbors political ambitions with which he will allow no woman—alive or dead—to interfere.
As the soon-to-be second Mrs. Winter grows more in love with Max, and more afraid of Dani, she is drawn deeper into the family’s dark secrets—the kind of secrets that could kill her, too. The Winters is a riveting story about what happens when a family’s ghosts resurface and threaten to upend everything.
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A modern day spin on Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier.
The Winters is light, intriguing, and suspenseful. The text will keep you interested, however I personally found it lacking something until I was much further along into the book than I had expected to be. It’s a slow burn but with a startling conclusion.
The well drawn characters keep you engrossed as the story builds but it didn’t have the intensity I had hoped it would based on previous reviews.
The Winters has good qualities, but a riveting read, I unfortunately did not find it too be.
Thank you First Look Book Club for this ARC in allowing me the chance to read and review.
I have no clue what Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier is, other than it’s a book that Lisa Gabriele based The Winters on. That means I came into this story without knowing what the story would entail, where the story would go, and what I was reading. For me, this was a great thing. I started the book with an open mind, an excitement for what I was about to read, and an interest in learning whatever I can about the characters. Lisa Gabriele wrote a story that kept me reading, guessing, and wondering what was going to happen with Max Winters, his fiancé, and his daughter.
The love story of Max and his fiancé was intriguing. Instantly I felt there was more to come for them, while I hoped for happiness I knew that it couldn’t be that easy. There were so many unknowns, so many twists, turns, ups and downs that I was kept on my toes. I loved that I was kept guessing and that I truly didn’t know what was going to happen until it actually happens. When Max returned home to the estate that he lived in with his dead wife and his teenage daughter I knew that there had to be more to come. Dani was a typical teenager as far as not being happy that her father met someone new and did the teenage things to make her not welcome in their lives.
There was so much anticipation, the story was told little by little, with each dialogue I had to guess what wasn’t being told and what the truth was. The Winters is a psychological thriller that kept me turning page after page excited to see where this story would go next.
From the brilliant first line to the shattering conclusion, The Winters will draw you in and leave you breathless… A must read.
The Winters is a clever, tense, atmospheric story that kept me gripped throughout. I couldn’t put it down!
I finished THE WINTERS yesterday and I loved it! I’ve never read the classic “Rebecca” nor watched its movie adaptation by Hitchcock, so I have nothing to compare to. But I’m fine with that. THE WINTER is absolutely fun to read.
The plot is opened by introducing characters to readers, followed by the development of a romantic relationship between the narrator and Max Winter. That part is a bit slow. Then our narrator moved to Max’s mansion on a secluded island. That’s when the plot is starting to get interesting. All suspense is leading up to a bizarre ending. Overall THE WINTERS is highly ENTERTAINING!
Thanks to @vikingbooks and @penguinrandomhouse for providing me with an advance copy of #TheWinters
A sharp and wickedly vivid novel — Lisa Gabriele spins a tight, gasping mystery from the confines of a picturesque home. As a result, The Winters is both a gripping thriller and an acute story of female resilience.
The Winters echoes the classic Rebecca but is a beautifully crafted, haunting thriller of its own that defies expectations at every turn. I read straight through, breathless to the killer final pages. A brilliant achievement.
I’m a bit concerned with how close to the novel “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier the plot of this new novel sounds. Can you advise if the writer is associated with Ms. du Maurier or is a relative? In “Rebecca”, Maxim Winters marries again, and his dead wife Rebecca haunts his home and new wife.