A review by halibut
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante

3.0

An interesting premise and start becomes bogged down in implausible expository dialogue in which characters announce their motivations and emotions. One of the key characters, Amanda, just doesn't feel plausible at all. The reader isn't really faced with the problem of disorientation the book seems to want to convey, the narrative is basically linear and even when the narrator doesn't know who or where or what it is abundantly clear to the reader. It's a really interesting concept, which perhaps is just exceedingly difficult to pull off and hasn't quite worked here.