by Kim Askew, Amy Helmes
Read this and other reviews at my blog.Skye is a bit of a wallflower, a shutterbug who prefers to see life through the lens of her camera instead of from the center of the action. When a student is found dead at a party Skye attends and she knows who might be involved, she has to deal with the idea ...
Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth instead of The Tempest, this second in the in the Twisted Lit series is a little darker than its predecessor with themes of ambition, deception, murder, and mental illness, but Exposure shares the clear-eyed wit and literate style that made reading Tempestuous such a p...
MEMORABLE QUOTE: "When I develop pictures in a darkroom, it's almost like painting with light." (p. 21)OVERALL IMPRESSION: Unfortunately, I have never read Macbeth, so I cannot compare this story to that at all. I was looking forward to reading this as I enjoyed Askew and Helmes' first book, Tempest...
2.5 StarsExposure is yet another Shakespeare retelling by Amy Helmes & Kim Aksew. While Tempestuous was an enjoyable retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest,Exposure is based on Macbeth.Macbeth was a compulsory part of my literature curriculum in high school so I did have a vague idea of what Exposure w...
This review and more at Sab The Book EaterIn the second book of the Twisted Lit series, Kim Askew and Amy Helmes brings an interesting adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. I'm not much of a Shakespeare fan; I don't know much about most of his work. When I read Exposure I tried to do my homework by r...
Due to copy and paste, formatting has been lost.This book was just a bit too anticlimactic for my taste. I mean, it kept me entertained and all for the short time that I was reading it, but...yeah. I just didn't care all that much for the story. Something so very dramatic happens, and it's something...
In a modern re-telling of Macbeth, a high school jock dies at a party, and loner Skye knows that her crush and his cheerleader girlfriend were involved somehow, but as the school year progresses, all three of them feel the guilt of their silence in very different ways.She started rubbing furiously a...