{"id":2438,"date":"2022-09-12T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T02:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2022-09-12T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T02:48:24","slug":"henrietta-eleanor-a-retelling-of-jekyll-and-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/henrietta-eleanor-a-retelling-of-jekyll-and-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Henrietta &#038; Eleanor: A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Title:<ul><li>Henrietta &amp; Eleanor: A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Author:<ul><li>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/li><li>Libby Spurrier &#8211; dramatist<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Release:<ul><li>November 20, 2018<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Format:<ul><li>Audiobook<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Narrator:<ul><li>Holliday Grainger<\/li><li>Clive Mantle<\/li><li>Carla Mendon\u00e7a<\/li><li>Miranda Raison<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I spotted somebody talking about writing a female version of Jekyll and Hyde on Twitter. As I was scrolling through my Audible library and discovered this, I just <em>had<\/em> to give it a listen. I have the original, as part of a collection and it&#8217;s been living rent-free in the back of my brain since January 2021. Unfortunately, I have yet to read the original, so I can&#8217;t comment on the faithfulness of this retelling. However, I&#8217;ll likely revisit this story sometime and update this post when I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The audio production is absolutely fantastic. The narrators (as well as the additional background effects) truly brought this book to life and captivated my interest. While I&#8217;ve dipped out of a story in the past because I found the background effects excessive, they only contributed positively to this retelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This cast, I just can&#8217;t say enough good things about them. So often, audio narrators are truly awful, or just alright at best. Not this cast, I recognized Miranda Raison from Dragon Age: 2 and Inquisition, which was mildly distracting. But that&#8217;s not a mark against this story by any means. To me, it told me this was likely a professional cast who took their work seriously, and based on the production I just listened to, I&#8217;d say my inference was accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t usually listen to audiobooks, listen to me now. A full cast is rare. Good narrators are rare. This story? You just don&#8217;t know how rare of a treat this audiobook is. This is one of those rare stories I&#8217;m going to promote long after this review because it&#8217;s worth your munny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published to critical acclaim in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man&#8217;s nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson&#8217;s reputation as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>In this Audible Original drama Stevenson\u2019s story is transported to modern-day London, and instead we meet Henrietta Jekyll and Eleanor Hyde.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jekyll, a charming doctor, explores the possibility of dividing the dark and light side of her personality, but in doing this she creates a monster, Eleanor Hyde. For many years she manages to live under the radar, keeping her dark secret unknown to those around her. However, gradually her evil side gains strength until Dr Jekyll is overwhelmed by Eleanor Hyde, to disastrous consequences. An exploration of human duality and forces of good and evil, this modern retelling is compelling and eerie and retains the disturbing nature of the original text.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Holliday Grainger (Cinderella, My Cousin Rachel, Strike) and Carla Mendon\u00e7a (My Parents Are Aliens, So Awkward).<\/p>\n<p>Also starring Tim Bentinck, Bill Fellows, Hugh Fraser, Holliday Grainger, Clive Mantle, Carla Mendonca, Katarina Olsson, Miranda Raison and Hugh Ross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,308,26,13,140,12,109,105,180,394,405,175,157,197,531,181,90],"tags":[21,8,34,216,35,390,283,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}