The Turn of the Key

I have high expectations going into this book since it received a lot of hype this year. This is also my very first Ruth Ware book and I had heard mixed reviews about her works but I was still so excited to read this.

The Turn of the Key, follows a nanny named Rowan where she applied to be a live in nanny to four children in a rich family. She moves in with this family in a high-tech house that has surveillance in every room, has voice activated appliances and everything else mostly works in a touch of a button. But then, she has been accused of murdering one of the children.

I thought that the premise of this book is very interesting which made me intrigued right from the start. I liked the writing in this book because it's written as a letter and it's easy to get into. The atmosphere is so well done that I can clearly imagine the setting right in my head. However, this story fell a little bit flat for me. It made me feel all the tension in the beginning, it dragged on in the middle and when it got to the ending, the tension and the build up of the story was just gone. Basically, it didn't deliver what I was expecting to happen and it also felt rushed. And the twist... oh the twist. As much as it pains me to say, the twist is so lame. It's so underwhelming that I didn't even flinch. Instead, I just rolled my eyes and stared into nothing for a couple of minutes. I also didn't like the characters that much because I thought that there's no depth to them.

I can see the potential of it being a good mystery/thriller book but it is poorly executed and I feel so bad because I really want to love this. Nevertheless, this is not the worst thing that I've ever read but it is definitely disappointing.