![]() ![]() The second time around however, you start to worry about everything she does. more > JREVIEW: Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves. Slice of Cherry is written in third person. On first read the novel terrifies, as we feel for the governess. Reeves, Your debut YA novel, Bleeding Violet, was one of my favorite books of last year, so when you emailed me with an offer to review an ARC of your second book, Slice of Cherry, I jumped at the chance. ![]() Distilling decades of preoccupation about how what one feels inside can be at odds with what is happening around us, James created an inexperienced governess at sea in a house of hidden histories, obsessions and malicious spirits. And the novella, unlike any major work he wrote before or after, was The Turn of the Screw. After running away to Portero, Texas to find her estranged mother, Hanna thinks this. ![]() Penned, not by a writer of grand guignol like Edgar Alan Poe, nor an adventure writer like Robert Louis Stevenson, but by Henry James, an American Anglophile whose novels of manners featuring wealthy Americans in Europe were investigations into the consciousness of his characters. All these ingredients and more were mixed together by the most unlikely source in the nineteenth century. : Bleeding Violet (9781416986188) by Reeves, Dia and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Ben Smith, Head of Film, TV & Publishing | The Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesĪ ghost watching from the end of the garden, an unsettling and precocious child who knows more than they should, an untrustworthy narrator. ![]()
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