The Uninvited

Good Read

This book was one of the best I have read this year. Reading other reviews, I noticed there were a lot of complaints about it not being horror, or not being quite a mystery. And, frankly, it wasn't. It wasn't an edge-of-my-seat type of read and I took my time with it. However it was highly intriguing and original and I found myself connecting with the characters. The only critique about the writing that I do have is that the character development for Cramer seemed to be a little "off." At first he was creepy, then obsessed, and then accepted everything when he learned what was going on - it didn't seem like a logical progression, especially for the time frame. Either way, I really enjoyed this - it was a refreshing, light "mystery" and I would recommend this to anyone.

Not what I expected

I am actually just finishing this book and am very disappointed. I am a huge fan of books like this one and this one did not live up to my expectations. For me, the first half of the book was very hard to get through...it was kind of slow and a little boring. I could not make any connection to any of the characters. Speaking of characters, the main character Mimi was written poorly. I understand the author wanted Mimi to come off as young and naive but at the end she seemed ditsy and almost irritating. The only part of this book I really enjoyed was the ending...that is when the book started to get a little more interesting and where the story really picks up. I feel like for the entire book you are just reading about people's conversations with each other...not a great read.

Good read.

Interesting tale and quirky characters. It sounded like a ghost tale but it was about a disfunctional family with some nut cases thrown in.

The uninvited

Very good book could not put it down the author put a m ix of drama suspence and mystery into this book awesome book to read

A Fantastic Story!

Mimi Shapiro is running. Running away from a disturbing first year at NYU to a small and creepy town in Nowhere, Canada. She hopes that while there for the summer, she can get her first screen play written, while coming to turns with what happened to her in the previous year.

Though nothing can stay perfect for long. When arriving at her father's deserted old summer house she finds that someone else is living there too. Her long lost half brother, a half brother that has been having his own problems, as of lately. Problems that involve a mysterious stalker who has been leaving him "presents" of dead birds and snake skin.

Can the two of them make it through the summer? Will they get to know each other the way only siblings can? Will they catch the stalker before their lives come to a crashing halt? Well, I guess you'll have to find out for yourself, in The Uninvited by Tim Wayne- Jones.

Only one adjective comes to mind after reading this page turning thriller: Wow! The Uninvited is a book that mixes mystery and getting to know long lost siblings in a fresh and fantastic new way. I was constantly trying to figure out how everything tied together. The characters were my favorite part of this story. They were well developed, likable, and funny. Plus, Tim Wayne-Jones' writing was pretty darn good. I loved how he slowly told the past of the characters and the stalker by reveling their secrets one at a time. Overall, The Uninvited is a definite must read for all teens and adults.

Grade: A+

* Reviewed For Flamingnet

Reviewed by Lynn Crow for TeensReadToo.com

When New Yorker Mimi drives all the way up into the Canadian wilderness to find the little house her artist father once used as a studio, she's just looking to spend some time alone - and away from an affair with a professor that has taken a nasty turn.

The last thing she expects is to find someone already occupying the house. Jay, a young musician struggling to find his muse, is more connected to Mimi than she first realizes. And so is the shy young man who watches them in secret from the river.

As Mimi and Jay divide up the house, the idyllic setting in the countryside is disrupted by a series of intrusions that become more and more destructive and apparently hostile. Why would anyone want to disturb them? How can they be stopped? And just how many secrets lie hidden in that long-abandoned house?

THE UNINVITED is a tense mystery broken by occasional bits of peace and beauty. The three narrators become more and more sympathetic as the reader gets to know them, and all of the supporting characters are well-developed and full of personality as well. Some of the best scenes are when Mimi, Jay, and Jay's girlfriend, Iris, are just hanging out, getting to know one another. But the gripping, suspenseful scenes are equally well done.

Wynne-Jones does a masterful job of letting certain moments stand as they are, without pushing them into melodrama, like the subtly creepy chapter end when Mimi discovers someone's filmed her on her own camera. Readers will enjoy fitting the pieces together as they learn about each of the characters, but the most important questions will keep them eagerly turning pages right until the end. They may find it a little confusing that Jay's narrative is nearly completely dropped part of the way through the book, and the brief sections in italics don't seem to completely integrate into the story, but those are minor quibbles.

Highly recommended to all fans of mystery and suspense.

The Uninvited

The Uninvited, by Tim Wynne-Jones, is a mysterious novel about a young girl, student at New York University, named Mimi Shapiro. She goes through many terrorizing events during her freshman year of college that change her life forever. It all begins with an affair she has with one of her professors. After making this terrible mistake, she finds him being strangely obsessive. She decides to move into a little home with her 22 year old half brother, Jackson, in Ontario. Once moved in, she and Jackson begin to suspect there is another presence in the house. They find tokens left in the house such as a dead bird and snake skin. This scares them a bit; however, Mimi wants to get to the bottom of what is going on. Could it be the professor stalking her? Or could it be something supernatural? This haunting thriller keeps the reader intrigued and unable to set the book down. It is full of suspense and keeps you wondering what is going to happen next.

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