Turn of the Key : Review

Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

SUMMARY

When she stumbles across the advert, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxurious 'smart' home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.

What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and her in a cell awaiting trial for murder.

She knows she's made mistakes. But, she maintains, she's not guilty - at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

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I heard about it from Kayla @BooksAndLala, and was immediately intrigued when I heard what it's about!
So what did I think?

Stars: ✦✦✦✦.5

So as usual, I'll tell 4.5 things I liked about the book and 0.5 thing I didn't like.

+1 | The writing. Though done through letters to a lawyer,  I kept forgetting it. That's how immersed I was in the story telling. Also everything written is intertwined and for a reason, like a classic Agatha Christie

+0.75/-0.25 | The characters, an array of different characters. Keep in mind that the main character isn't exactly one you'd root for

+1 | The atmosphere. Partly due to writing, partly characters, but mostly the way things are planned out and happen. The pacing was also so well executed

+1 | Plot twists galore. And not just the basic who-done-it, but also even the fact that we don't know who dies for so long. Then there's the characters, reasons, meanings...

+0.75/-0.25 | The ending. It was wonderfully done, and I also think what happened was told brilliantly. But I would've loved to know a bit more after the end. Then again I enjoyed speculating myself.
Also the feeling of realization and thinking back with the thoughts of how did I not see that - that's the good one.

Read on lovelies,

S