BOOK REVIEW: THE TURN OF THE SCREW BY HENRY JAMES

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Title: Turn of the Screw || Author: Henry James || Audiobook Narrator: Flo Gibson || Genre: Classic, Gothic, Supernatural, Paranormal ||Year of publication: 1898 || No. of pages: 124|| Available at Amazon.com and Bol.com

James’s great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else entirely?

(synopses courtesy of penguin books)

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CITY OF GHOSTS – VICTORIA SCHWAB

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Title: City of Ghosts || Author: Victoria Schwab || Audiobook Narrator : Reba Buhr || Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Middle Grade || Publisher: Scholastic Press || Year of publication: 2018 || No. of pages: 285 || Available at Amazon, Bookdepository and Bol.com

City of Ghosts is the story of Cassidy Blake who nearly drowns and a ghost named Jacob who saves her life. Their spirits get tangled up in the proces and now Cassidy is not entirely alive and Jacob is not completely dead … and as a consequence Cassidy can now cross into the spirit roam. Continue reading “CITY OF GHOSTS – VICTORIA SCHWAB” →