Take Your Turn, Teddy

By: Haley Newlin

Narrated by: Thomas Gloom

No one knows your darkness like your own Shadow.

Nothing has been normal for Teddy, not since discovering the harsh identity of the monster he had been living with his whole life - his own father. Teddy and his mother leave that behind to start over in a small Indiana township. But as Teddy begins to learn of humanity's monsters, he unveils an otherworldly evil he calls "The Shadow". The Shadow tests Teddy's vulnerability and growing sense of isolation, poisoning his mind and conjuring a vile killer-in-the-making.

A year later, Officer Leonard Strode is called in to offer consultation on a case similar to the most brutal and scarring of those he’s worked on before. One is the case of Jackie Warren, the other, Theodore “Teddy” Blackwood - two missing children. As he and two other officers follow the trail of clues, Strode is haunted by the ghosts of his own past and is horrified to find them wreaking havoc on his present.

When both Teddy and Strode finally meet face-to-face, they must confront their inner darkness as well or else be consumed by it.

©2020 Haley Newlin (P)2021 Haley Newlin

Good Story, So-So Narration

This is definitely a good haunting story, but I just can’t get over how the narrator makes the female police officer in part two sound like a monotone robot. Drove me nuts!

Great Book!

Really enjoyed this one. Dark, creepy, and sad all at the same time. Nice physiological aspect to the tale!

Enjoyed the dark and creepy story!

The narrator did an excellent job with the creepy voice of the shadow but I really did not like the way he narrated the dialogue, especially for Officer Finch. He did it in a monotone, robot like voice that had several pauses between words. I seriously questioned whether or not I had somehow missed that she was a robot.

Gripping, Thrilling, couldn’t stop listening

I don’t stray too far from Stephen King, but TikTok has opened up a whole new world of horror and thriller books to me. I came across this gem on there and I loved it! It definitely keeps you guessing!! I tend to get bored easily with books, but this one kept my interest the whole way through. Definitely recommend!

Decent story but...

So I don't normally write reviews but, the Shadow's whispering conversations with Teddy were long and intricate at times which made it made it super hard for me to continue listening but I did push through. Then, if you have read the Bill Hodges series and/or watched the remake of the movie IT by Stephen King, here's a heads up... In the Bill Hodges series, if you've read just one of the books in the series you should pick up on which protagonist in Take Your Turn, Teddy the narrator seems to be trying to channel Holly Gibney into - it's cringe worthy to me as I LOVE the Holly Gibney character and hated hearting the narrator's horrible attempt at (copying) establishing this character. In the IT remake, in the first scene where Pennywise is in the gutter, he and Georgie are talking about popcorn...POP, POP, POP - that phrase is spoken by a Clown is in this book. I listened to the entire book, as I used a credit to purchase it, but I was truly put off by the whispering Shadow and the likeness of Stephen King characters integrated into this book. Had the narrator established his own character instead of borrowing Holly's and had the writer left the POP - POP - POP phrase out of the book I may have enjoyed it a bit more... but, maybe not. Good Luck Reader - Maybe you will take more away from this book than I did.