![]() Had the first-person narrator/voice been anything like James’s governess, I would’ve DNF-ed. In The Turn of the Key, I got a fairly satisfying hybrid between atmospheric James and contemporary feminist gothic. Westaway that I wanted to try one of her books. But I’d heard and read reviewers and Twitter friends praise Ware’s The Woman In Cabin 10 and The Death of Mrs. I like my gothic with a good streak of romance, like Jane Eyre, and female protagonists with a brain in their head, like Jane, like Stewart’s, Kearsley’s, and St. I hate James’s twisted, labyrinthine sentences, his dunce of a narrator, and the creepy setting. ![]() I side-eyed Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key because it nods at James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” one classic I’ve abhorred since I had the misfortune to read it in a 19th century lit class. ![]()
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