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A review by aratecla_the_bookrat
The Dark Side of the Room by Tyler Jones
4.0
I received the audiobook by the narrator Jennifer Pickens and this is my honest review.
First of all I loved the narration and how Jennifer Pickens really conveyed the characters and their points of view!
This is a weird dark story that left me with mixed feelings. I hated the main character Betsy, although I pitied her at times as well. Without revealing any spoilers, I hated this story because of the theme (very personal to me), but I also loved it as it is very well written and I have to praise the ability of the writer.
The author managed to create such a dark and eerie atmosphere that it draws you in from the start, and without actually explaining what is going on, we are left with Betsy's interpretation of the events, creating even more ambiguousness, and also leaving space to the reader's interpretation, which I thought was brilliant!
In this version there is also a novella wich goes in parallel with the main story but follows different characters.
As the title suggets, the darkness is the focus and this is so well depicted that as I was listening to the narration, all the events played in my head with a chiaroscuro lighting so as to amplify the experience. I do recommend this story and in particular the audiobook version as the narrator was brilliant!
First of all I loved the narration and how Jennifer Pickens really conveyed the characters and their points of view!
This is a weird dark story that left me with mixed feelings. I hated the main character Betsy, although I pitied her at times as well. Without revealing any spoilers, I hated this story because of the theme (very personal to me), but I also loved it as it is very well written and I have to praise the ability of the writer.
The author managed to create such a dark and eerie atmosphere that it draws you in from the start, and without actually explaining what is going on, we are left with Betsy's interpretation of the events, creating even more ambiguousness, and also leaving space to the reader's interpretation, which I thought was brilliant!
In this version there is also a novella wich goes in parallel with the main story but follows different characters.
As the title suggets, the darkness is the focus and this is so well depicted that as I was listening to the narration, all the events played in my head with a chiaroscuro lighting so as to amplify the experience. I do recommend this story and in particular the audiobook version as the narrator was brilliant!