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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

November 3, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Rowan works at a London daycare with the suitably horrible name Little Nippers. Though she likes the children, she dislikes her coworkers and the put-upon, complaining parents that she has to deal with. She lives in a cramped, run-down apartment, which she shares with a coworker who is now on Sabbatical. So when she finds a job ad for a live-in nanny on a country estate in the Scottish Highlands, she does whatever she can to get the job. It doesn’t go well; the book […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Haunted House, horror, Ruth Ware, scotland, The Turn of the Key

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Haunted House, horror, Ruth Ware, scotland, The Turn of the Key ·
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Great Update to Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

September 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So this is probably my favorite Ruth Ware book that I have read. The other ones were missing key elements or just were not developed enough in my opinion. In “The Turn of the Key” Ware updates “The Turn of the Screw” to contemporary times. Instead of a governess, we have a live in nanny. Instead of two children, we end up having our governess deal with three. And it also takes a while for everything to be revealed. The main reason why I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

Classic's CBR11 Review No:209 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key ·
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