{"id":5571,"date":"2024-03-21T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:03:29","slug":"the-turn-of-the-screw-by-ruth-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-turn-of-the-screw-by-ruth-ware\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>The Turn of the Key<\/b> by Ruth Ware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42080142-the-turn-of-the-key\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1548204800l\/42080142._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Turn of the Key\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42080142-the-turn-of-the-key\">The Turn of the Key<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9013543.Ruth_Ware\">Ruth Ware<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/6363487476\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highlight of this book was the delightful reading by Imogen Church, the voice actor. Not only was she an excellent actor, but she did a marvelous job with the many English and Scottish accents. The plot centers around Rowan, the new nanny at a creepy old haunted(?) house in Scotland which has been totally upgraded electronically with technology so advanced only a 7-year-old can possibly understand it. The pay is incredible because the preceding four nannies have left suddenly and without warning. Why? (Cue ominous music) But the man and lady of the house take off immediately after Rowan arrives and Rowan is left with three young girls who vary from adorable to hateful. There is yet a fourth daughter, a teenager, who is away but who is expected to return. From the first day, weird and frightening things happen &#8211; creepy noises at night, the climate system going wrong, locked doors becoming unlocked and vice versa. You get the idea. The story is told in a series of letters from Rowan to a solicitor asking for legal representation as Rowan has been charged with the murder of a child. We don&#8217;t know who the victim was or why she&#8217;s been charged.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was going to be a crime mystery, but the murder part is left alone till the very end. The main body of the story is really a haunted house\/ghost story, not what I was looking for. The plot suffered from a lack of plausibility and Rowan is a hopelessly inept character, hard to find sympathetic. I was disappointed in the ending, but the story had enough action of the creepy sort to stay somewhat interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware My rating: 3 of 5 stars The highlight of this book was the delightful reading by Imogen Church, the voice actor. 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