a_duck_with_a_book 's review for:

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

2.75

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"She rose ... with an indescribable grand melancholy of indifference and detachment ... Dishonoured and tragic, she was all before me."

I'm currently in a bit of a reading slump, so I'm sure that dampened my enjoyment of this book somewhat. 

I decided to read this novel because I started watching The Haunting of Bly Manor and I was curious to see what the source material was. However, I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had read it with some sort of background on James and the novel itself. Picking it up out of the blue with absolutely zero background on the literature of the period was probably not the smartest move.

I was honestly bored for the majority of the novel and missed most of the themes and motifs that I read about once I finished it. I'm sure if I had done a bit of research first I would have appreciated it more, so I'm settling at three stars.