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2.55 AVERAGE
2.55 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Listened for Fun (Library)
Overall Rating: DNF
Audio Rating: 5.00 (not part of the overall rating)
Quick DNF Thoughts: The Turning by Francine Prose was just too rambly and not enough scary for me to finish. It is a short read (I gave it 25%) but it really needed to be a tighter story. Sad that I just could not get into it enough to finish it because the audio was AMAZING! I have heard the story actually gets better as you go a long but I have lots on my TBR shelf.
Audio Thoughts
The narration is almost what made me want to finish the book. Amazing job y'all! Amazing job!
Library Book Review
Overall Rating: DNF
Audio Rating: 5.00 (not part of the overall rating)
Quick DNF Thoughts: The Turning by Francine Prose was just too rambly and not enough scary for me to finish. It is a short read (I gave it 25%) but it really needed to be a tighter story. Sad that I just could not get into it enough to finish it because the audio was AMAZING! I have heard the story actually gets better as you go a long but I have lots on my TBR shelf.
Audio Thoughts
Narrated By Kirby Heyborne, Grover Gardner, Amy Rubinate/Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
The narration is almost what made me want to finish the book. Amazing job y'all! Amazing job!
Library Book Review
At first I didn't like how the book is in a format of just letters. Within the letters Jack writes Sophie telling her word for word, event to event what is happening on the island. But as the book goes on and you can slowly see jack going crazy it stops bothering me.
The main characters are Jack, Sophie, Jack's dad, Linda, Miles, Flora, Lucy, and Norris.
Jack is given a job on an island with no internet, no tv, no wifi, nothing. He is supposed to baby sit Miles and Flora for two months. Sophie is his girlfriend and her father set him up with the job since he doesn't like them being together. Weird events occur leaving Jack someone questioning the children's weird behavior. He believes the ghost of Lucy and Norris are there to hurt the children until Lucy begins speaking to jack and he falls in love with her. By the end of the book he is locked into a mental hospital.
What I did not like was at the end of the book it leaves you wondering. What happens to jack? What happens to jacks father and Linda? The children? Sophie? Was Lucy and Norris a hallucination? Although the book was a good read, and a page turner, I still wish it was longer and not just leaving you hanging.
The main characters are Jack, Sophie, Jack's dad, Linda, Miles, Flora, Lucy, and Norris.
Jack is given a job on an island with no internet, no tv, no wifi, nothing. He is supposed to baby sit Miles and Flora for two months. Sophie is his girlfriend and her father set him up with the job since he doesn't like them being together. Weird events occur leaving Jack someone questioning the children's weird behavior. He believes the ghost of Lucy and Norris are there to hurt the children until Lucy begins speaking to jack and he falls in love with her. By the end of the book he is locked into a mental hospital.
What I did not like was at the end of the book it leaves you wondering. What happens to jack? What happens to jacks father and Linda? The children? Sophie? Was Lucy and Norris a hallucination? Although the book was a good read, and a page turner, I still wish it was longer and not just leaving you hanging.
1/5 stars
This was so boring. I could barely get through 20 pages before needing a break. The author set this up as letters being written from one character to another, but you never knew who was writing until the very end of the letter. The way the letters that Jack wrote were so jumbled up that it was hard to keep track of everything. it was all just a mess, with nothing interesting happening in all 245 pages. Ending was half-assed, and Jack was an even bigger one to his girlfriend Sophie. Definitely don't recommend this book. Pick up an RL Stine book if you want fun creepy. This isn't worth it.
This was so boring. I could barely get through 20 pages before needing a break. The author set this up as letters being written from one character to another, but you never knew who was writing until the very end of the letter. The way the letters that Jack wrote were so jumbled up that it was hard to keep track of everything. it was all just a mess, with nothing interesting happening in all 245 pages. Ending was half-assed, and Jack was an even bigger one to his girlfriend Sophie. Definitely don't recommend this book. Pick up an RL Stine book if you want fun creepy. This isn't worth it.
Not terrible, but not great, and never hit that shivery note of dread that I look for in a good horror story. Frankly, I'd rather read Henry James - and I'm not sure I've ever put those words together in a sentence before.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
if this was trying to be another Asylum, it failed. I didn't give this such a low score because the story wasn't too my taste (although it was almost close enough for me to not finish), but because the writing wasn't very good. especially in the beginning. the book is written in the epistolary style, mostly consisting of letters from Jack to his girlfriend. as such, much of the exposition occurs by Jack writing down his history, which no one would ever do in real life because she already knew it. Jack is also exceedingly childish for someone who is supposedly going into his senior year of high school. the mysterious/supernatural bits were handled with the subtlety of former President Trump. nor does the timeline add up; Jack says mail only goes by the weekly ferry and there's no other communication with the outside world available yet he gets upset by his girlfriend taking to long between letters after only the weeks and Linda, in the same time frame, is supposedly able to receive and send several letters to a school. as regards my personal tastes, the supposed resolution doesn't resolve anything and left me with a wtf feeling.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Eh... Honestly, this book bored me. It's not scary at all and it was really slow. It didn't read like a horror story at all, which is what I wanted it to be.