Book - The Turn of the Screw

The Turn Of The Screw
Henry James
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Synopsis (from Goodreads.com)
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.

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I rated 2 stars on Goodreads. It's actually a tie between 2 and 3 stars. But given that in the end, I really didn't know just what was going on... so I decided on a 2 stars.

I enjoyed the book as I read it. It did give me the chills in many parts. I was just pretty let down by the actual inconclusive ending of the book... so what did happen? and to the listeners of the "story", what did they think of it? Their chit-chats after the "story" ends? Who is the story teller? What happened to the governess?

But really, the thing that is irking me the most is... the why and the how. Why and how did that happen? The ending is just too mysterious!

Book - The Fixer

The Fixer: A Lawson Vampire Novel 1
Jon F Merz
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Product Desrciption
Meet Lawson: vampire by birth, Fixer by trade. His mission: preserve the secret existence of vampires by any means necessary. There's just one problem - his oldest enemy Cosgrove is back, killing humans and threatening to unleash an ancient unholy evil. Can Lawson stop Cosgrove and still adhere to the very laws he protects by not falling in love with a beautiful human assassin named Talya?

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Vampires. Vampires keeping the "balance". Think secret organizations creating a special unit to keep the organization a secret.

The whole plot was pretty promising.

I just started to get annoyed with things getting repeated.

Like how Mr. Lawson "feels like he's 15" (repeated twice) and then "he feels like he's 14" (I thought you said 15, sir). How he goes on over and over again about Talya. It got to a point that I'm definitely sure that someone tried to "kick him in the groin", but "he deflected" by "raising his knee up" and then somehow "kicked back and rolled away" twice. Exactly the same. Oh and "headbutting the guy in the brow" too, happened twice.

Not to say it was bad, but... I don't like reading a completely new, never-before-read book and going "this is deja vu, where did I read this before? oh, just a couple pages ago."

The ending felt a bit anti-climatic. The whole "laws and forbidden stuff" sounded a bit strained and forced, so yeah...

It was a quick read too. Good for a rainy afternoon.

If you are big on editing and formatting though, avoid the Kindle version. Lots and lots of editing fail, missing words, poor formatting, and typos.