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The Turn of The Screw

Henry James
Book
November
2021

Review:

I feel like I have already read this book. I’m going to have to go and recheck the review list because the writing style and story are so familiar. It reminds me of Jane Eyre and everything that happened in that book. It was a little hard to read because of the time period and the type of story. Frankly, I found it rather dull the amount of things that I just didn’t need is uncountable. The other weird thing is this is a book that is less than 200 pages, but it felt like a 600-page book. It was an uphill battle just to finish a chapter, and the story wasn’t worth that much effort. I’m not sure if it was the writing style that set me off or if it was the sort itself that I didn’t like. I almost feel like it doesn’t deserve a review because of how mediocre it is. This was not my favorite of the classics, and I would definitely not read it again.

Trigger Warnings:
Sexual Abuse, Horror, Mental Illness and Ghosts

Synopsis From Book:

A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls... But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.
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