by Francine Prose
The Turning is being touted as a unique take on The Turning of the Screw. I was looking forward to a good ghost story. In truth, I'm still not sure what I read. In the end, I couldn't decide if it was a ghost story or the ravings of a delusional teen. The book is told through letters. The major...
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Wow awesome book. I really loved how everything started quite normal but soon turned weird. And the ending, just wow.
Giving up on this audio book. Although the narrator works really hard to put emotion into the story, there's such a lack to begin with that it seems forced. I was bored for over a half hour of listening. Moving on to something new.
I do not know what to say about this book. I really don't, and for that I feel bad. It just fell flat for me, for whatever reason. Maybe it was the epistolary form. Maybe it was that I've seen this same story told better in the past. Whatever the reason, it just didn't do it for me.
Francine Prose's The Turning is a modern YA retelling of the classic The Turn of the Screw. I've never read the original, but I am familiar with the basic storyline and Prose's updated version is a great example of a retelling with a twist. The Turning may not have blown me away, but I did have a lo...
I read the original one years ago and it was really odd. This YA re-telling of the story is just as odd, so I guess that's a compliment.
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