A review by accovino
The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.25
I'm not sure how I feel. It was more mystery than horror and a few of the mysteries were pretty clear fairly early, but one was just.... Ehhhhh.
Spoiler
Ellie is FIVE. She pushes her OLDER sister hard enough to create an arc that "can't be a simple fall" and has to be a violent push? A smart speaker I would've bought, but an old phone playing a believable creak loud enough to hear through the floor, and what, she crawls up and down every night to play it? She has it set to play every night? It's a bit thin.Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Sexual assault