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Reading 2nd time in 2026 .Audible.

Did not finish. This was an audio edition and the narrator over-emphasized the childish drama of Anne’s speech. This made it quite dull for the adult listener.

Did not finish. Possibly the narration over-emphasized the youthful audience of this book. In any event, it was too melodramatic for this reader.

I’m over half-way through my Audible edition. I’m neither enchanted nor interested. I can’t grab hold of a character I wish to follow so therefore my interest in this book is waning. Usually I can easily accept novels from earlier centuries, but this one - important to the development of the gothic genre - I am forcing myself to finish.

I am reading this book for the 2nd time, this time from an Audible edition. It is easier to follow as the careful male narrator expresses particular dismay and shock as the personalities appear. His anxieties, the doctor, clearly increase the discomfort of the reader and add a sense of fear in me I did not have in the Kindle edition.

The Audible in this horror genre makes it “present tense” to the reader.