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Turning Book 1: What Curiosity Kills (2010)

by Helen Ellis(Favorite Author)

3.07 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1402253672 (ISBN13: 9781402253676)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Sourcebooks Fire

series

The Turning

review 1: Was a really good book to me. Sometimes it drag or getting confusing cause well I don't understand but in the end it came together. It was a little bit fast but I liked it. A bit gory but gore is something I like. I do hope to see the 2nd book come out. I'm curious how this will all turn out, considering the color Orange means a lot and the fact you only get 5 years. Hmm... but overall I did enjoy the book.
review 2: I give this 2.5 stars- Helen has written a fascinating story set in New York City about 16 year old Mary Richards. Before being adopted as an older child, Mary grew up in Foster Care. She now lives with her friend and sister, Octavia, who's also adopted. Both girls have had their share of heartache and now live with a loving family in the Upper Eas... moret Side in Manhattan, and attend a private school. While the book starts off with Mary, her sister Octavia, and their twin sister friends, I felt the story took a strange turn shortly after it began. Out of no where Mary starts acting strange and starts having feline desires. During this time, her long time crush Nick, starts taking notice in her. It's not until the large deli cat appears outside of her bathroom window and she lets him in, does she start to realize what's happening to her. She's going through "The Turning". Something Nick knows all about and is there to help Mary through it. To Mary's surprise and Octavia's horror, Mary is turning into a cat. Not just any cat, Mary is something more, she's a very elite kind of cat, which causes the attraction of Country Club, King of the Strays. With a turf war looming on the horizon, Mary realizes there's a few things she needs to learn about her abilities and being apart of this secret society. Yoon, the cat she let in to her bathroom, Nick and Octavia are her only source of help. While a few things were missing from the story for me, I did enjoy Nick and Mary's relationship, even though I felt it came out of nowhere and happened really quickly. They went from never talking to having an immediate connection to dating each other. Once I got further on in the story, I discovered why things happened so fast. Octavia and Mary's relationship is a raw sister/friend relationship that will either be shattered or strengthened through Mary's turning. Mary soon learns the horrors that Octavia endured for years, at the mercy of cats, and the reason why Octavia would never change in front of her. Cats aren't always the nice loving house pets we want them to be. I liked that during the course of Mary's "turning", Octavia and Mary's relationship grows, as they learn to trust the other with secrets no one else knows about. I'm not sure if I was fascinated or had the hardest time getting into the scenes when Mary's a cat. While those scenes are brief, Helen wrote the scenes from Mary's point of view as a cat, and then when she's human, she describes her feline yearnings she has for Nick and Yoon, the fat deli cat who started "the Turning". The Turning is the first book in this series, and I am looking forward to finding out what happens with Mary, Nick and Octavia in the next book. While Mary is worried about saving Nick and doing her best to keep her relationship with her sister, who's very freaked out by Mary being a cat, Mary has to save herself, but time is of the essence and Mary's time is running out less

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