INCOMING, SPOILER ALERT INCOMING, SPOILER ALERT INCOMING.
So who exactly is Rebecca? Maxim de Winter's beautiful and outgoing first wife, who died tragically in a sailing accident? The story goes that her drowned body was found miles up the shore, horribly mauled by the sea. Well that is how the story went until Rebecca's sunken boat was accidentally discovered a little offshore by a diver who was helping another boat. However that's not even the crazy part. Rebecca's body was found in the cabin. Whaaaaaaaaaaaattttt?????? I know right, it got me too. So now poor New Wife has to deal with this haphazard resurrection of Rebecca, continuing to fight for Maxim's love. Only the thing is, she never really needed to win his love. Maxim never loved Rebecca and was deeply in love with New Wife. The reason? She was a harlot, to put it non-colloquial terms. She had that cottage to bring her many lovers to spend the night there. Maxim new about this the whole time, though. He agreed to marry her because she promised to make Manderley great, and she did. In turn, Maxim allowed her to go up to London to see her various "friends", especially her first cousin Jack Favell. Incest much? Yep, Favell was one of her cottage-mates. Maxim resented her for this, so much so that he killed her. Yes, you read right, Maxim de Winter killed Rebecca. He shot her in her cottage, hid her body in the cabin of her boat, locked the door, and sunk her boat. He admitted all of this to New Wife, who in turn, out of all of this the only thing she got was that Maxim loved her. It was the only thing she wanted to here since they got married about four months ago. However, they still need to deal with the fact that Rebecca has returned to threaten their happiness. After a grueling and stressful meeting with the coroner, Rebecca's death was ruled as a suicide. So yay, the de Winters are officially out of the woods now! Yeah, no. Rebecca's incestuous lover Jack Favell is still around and has made a claim that Maxim killed Rebecca because he hated Rebecca's consorting with him. This new investigation led to the discovery that Rebecca had cancer. So now it seems as though Rebecca had a motive for suicide. Whoo hoo, New Wife and Maxim can live happily ever after! Not so fast, said the notorious Mrs. Danvers. On the way home home, Maxim sensed something wrong...
"The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea."
I'm pretty sure you can guess what happened...
OKEY DOKEY KEEP ON READING PEOPLES.
I have no idea how I'm going to follow up Rebecca, but I'll choose my next book from the list Mrs. Finco gave me. I super recommend this book though! Happy reading till next week then.
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