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Edition Language: | English |
Literary Awards: | Readers' Favorite Book Award (2015), New Apple Book Awards (2014) |
Stevie Turner
Kindle Edition | Pages: 121 pages Rating: 3.63 | 564 Users | 111 Reviews
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Title | : | A House Without Windows |
Author | : | Stevie Turner |
Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 121 pages |
Published | : | April 19th 2015 by KDP (first published January 13th 2014) |
Categories | : | Mystery. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Fiction. Suspense. Dark |
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This is an alternate-cover edition for B00HUH6R7Q.Dr Beth Nichols thinks she has been held captive by Edwin Evans for probably 8 or 9 years now. Amidst her grief she often thinks back to happier times with her fiancée Liam; theirs was the greatest romance of all. She lays awake at night, looks up at the light bulb that is never switched off, and prays that he is still out there somewhere searching for her..........
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Ratings: 3.63 From 564 Users | 111 ReviewsAppraise Epithetical Books A House Without Windows
If you liked the book Room you'll probably like A House Without Windows, as they both offer a child's perspective of the story as it unfolds. I found both books to be tedious to read. The main character's daughter, Amy, offers a perspective which was nothing more than a retelling of a book she was reading. I found myself skipping over those parts, as they added nothing to the story at all.And the dialogue...ye Gods, it was awful! Whether it was the spoken word or the e-mails written between LiamStevie Turner follows up The Porn Detective and The Pilates Class with a study of lives affected by abduction. When Dr Beth Nichols is released from a basement after ten years of captivity she and her children are not the only ones forced to reassess 'life on the outside' as they adjust to freedom.The story is told from the point of view of a number of characters, but rather than create a tangled plot of interweaving stories Stevie Turner breaks the book up into a separate section for each
Not only did I love this book but I wish it could have been expanded to 3 parts, Beth & Liam, Amy, and then Joss. Normally I try to avoid books with a childs POV but here for each of the characters their voices came across as natural and emotionally authentic. From the beginning, while I would have liked to read a lead up to the kidnapping the fact that we're observing through Amy's eyes & heart made events on & off page so much more... Given the horrid circumstances Beth and Amys
A House Without Windows by Stevie Turner is a tale of obsession, horror and suspense that had me hooked from the first page. Written from several POV's the author managed to capture the characters perfectly. I was especially moved by the child, Amy's POV during her period of captivity and the strength of Beth during her ordeal and again during the final confrontation with her abductor. The story spans more than twenty years of Beth's life and despite the harrowing and realistic trauma that the
The Mundane Made Significant - Brilliant!Stevie Turner's writing sparkles in A House Without Windows. The author succeeds at smothering the shocking story of a years-long kidnap in prose that takes the reader gently into the maelstrom of mental illness and leads the reader to the reality of a bright young woman's nightmare experience. Ordinarily this type of story would frighten me, but Turner deadens the shock with the mundane. Often seen through the eyes of a child born in the cellar prison,
Topical given the high profile cases of women kidnapped and kept in homestead dungeons in recent years (and sometimes even forced to raise families with their tormentors), A HOUSE WITHOUT WINDOWS is an empathetic and heartfelt character study. It would have been easy to stay *just* within the "present" and make this a Hollywoodised "race against time"-type plot, but Turner avoids this expected route with panache. Instead, told via first and third person accounts, via diary entries, letters and
Wow I am in the minority on this book. I cannot figure out why people loved it. First, let me just say this is absolutely not a psychological thriller. It is neither a thriller (it's actually really slow) nor is it psychological in any capacity. I really disliked Joss in general and found him to be surly without reason. Also, I felt that the dialogue was contrived and unrealistic. Lastly, don't listen to the audiobook. The narrator does a fine job throughout most of it but her "Canadian accent"
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