Compelling tale let down by the narration

It took me a long time to get into this story, the narrator’s voice, sadly, irritating, and the switch in from American to Australian accents was hard to listen to. But it was the story that kept me listening. The author’s choice to start in the future and then go back in time without indication of the time slip was confusing and I kept waiting for it to return but somewhere along the narrative i realised that was the author’s intention. The tale, with its elements of psychological and the paranormal were enthralling, but one never fully understand what these insinuate. Is Rose being haunted? Or is she simply psychotic or psychic or telepathic.
The embedded theme of the criminal doings of the orphanage and the family’s enthralment to it gave the story an added element of horror just one of the many different themes to this story.
The main character’s were portrayed well, realistically under going metamorphosis throughout the book, the horror of both Rose and Peter’s childhood’s remain on the fringe but nonetheless one cannot but be touched by it.
A haunting, chilling, ethereal dreamlike tale, this story is fascinating, but is as I have said let down by the narrator. It deserves better.

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