I don't like post-20th century paranormal books because they are such trite renditions on what could be a truly terrifying genre. I am prejudiced against first-person stories that remind me of the rise of Mary Sue/self-inserts a la Fanfiction.net, circa 1998. An immediate lustful encounter with ...
This is my third (of three) Cat Winter's novels. She writes a sort of magical realism crossed with historical YA fiction that I absolutely love. The Uninvited is written for a slightly more mature audience, and treads some familiar ground, returning to the Spanish flu pandemic and WWI. The novel's...
This book put me through an emotional ringer. I loved every bit of it. I've be interested in the time period and the forgotten Pandemic of 1918 for sometime now, and curious in how Cat Winters would show this in her work. She nailed it. Down to the small details of how people reacted to those seem...
I really enjoyed this book. I've read one other Cat Winters book - In the Shadow of Blackbirds - which I also just loved. If I had to choose between the two, Blackbirds has a bit of an edge, but I'd recommend either book to people who enjoy YA, historical fiction and/or magical realism. The Cure f...
The females of the Rowan family have a secret; they can see the ghosts of loved ones who have passed. These uninvited guests however, are carrying an omen of a death soon to come. Ivy Rowan is 25 and has not lived much of life outside of her family farm. The Great War and the Spanish Influenza ha...
Ivy's ability to see ghost has always been a curse. She knows if she sees a ghost, a death is coming. Unfortunately, it's 1918 and the flu pandemic is in full swing. Ivy falls victim to the flu and barely has the strength to leave her house when she learns her father and brother murdered a local Ger...
Cat Winter’s The Uninvited zipped by so quickly that I was in the last chapters before I quite realized how fast I was reading. The book opens with Ivy Rowan’s father and brother returning to the family farm from town, covered in blood, and rambling about the German they just killed. It’s October 19...
The Cure for Dreaming starts with Olivia Mead, a girl who just turned 16, attending a hypnosis show, living in 1900 Portland, Oregon. She is picked to go on stage and though she does not remember anything that happens to her, the hypnotist Henri Reverie manages to make her body as stiff as a board, ...
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