Ugh, this is not my jam. A local book club is reading this alongside Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, which I love, so I felt up to the task of reading this modern retelling.

From the first half dozen pages I could tell the writing was immature, but I gave it a chance (stove I don't believe in rating/reviewing books that haven't been read in entirety). It didn't get much better and the plot was hot garbage in comparison with the genius James piece. While James evenhandedly spreads breadcrumbs in two exclusive interpretations, Ware spells out everything in ELI5 fashion, leaving no room for imagination or difference of opinion as to what might've happened. I suppose some readers (actually quite a lot of readers, it turns out) like this kind of hand-holding, but that is certainly not my demographic. Maybe I would have enjoyed this if I were an adolescent 🤷🏼‍♀️

C'est la vie, and at least it didn't take much time to read.