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The Uninvited
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
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bthegood
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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Well written - tense, dark , hopeful - the world is experiencing a pandemic of violence (children killing family, adults sabotaging companies) and Hesketh is one of the people asked to work on a solution - his stepson Freddy K becomes “infected“ - it is about love, friendship, effect of rapid growth on the planet - so many things - Be warned: there is no Scooby Doo ending - (which I loved)
#ReadSpooky2022 @teebe

Make a great day everyone - 🙂

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 1y
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bthegood
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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My list of books for the #WinterReadathon @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Make a great day everyone -☃️

kspenmoll Christmas readathon! Great idea! I will check this out. 1y
DieAReader Looking good!! Thanks for joining & sharing🤓📚 1y
bthegood @kspenmoll I hope you join -🎄 1y
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Andrew65 Some great sounding books in there. It‘s starting to feel like Christmas 😁 1y
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bthegood
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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#NovelNovember @Andrew65 thanks for hosting.
My goal is to finish two books I'm currently reading and pick up at least one more,

#BookSpinBingo

Make a great day everyone 🍂🍂

Andrew65 Best of luck and have a good reading weekend 😁 1y
kspenmoll Have a great day yourself & enjoy your reading! 1y
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bthegood
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs and @TheSpineView thanks for the tag -
1. @WJCintron - one of our own 🙂
2. I get most of my ideas from Litsy (so social media) and I almost exclusively use the library to get books so sometimes from the library recommendations
3. 56 Days by Catherine Howard - it was an unpredictable twist for me 😅

Make a great day everyone -🍂

tyoung2058 I usually don't answer these type of questions but...hey why not. 1. Jack Carr. 2. Online social media. 3. The Terminal List. 1y
bthegood @tyoung2058 thanks for playing! 🙂 (edited) 1y
Eggs @tyoung2058 @bthegood Thank you 🙏🏻 1y
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TheSpineView You're welcome! 1y
WJCintron 🥹🥹🙏🤗❤️❤️ Sending big BIG HIGS and waves of abundance your way! 🌊🌊Cheers to everlasting friendship! 🥂 1y
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TheWordJar
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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My #octobertbr consists of titles for #screamathon and #littensdressedinblood. If I get through two or three of these I will be happy. My #octobermostanticipated is probably The Doll House. Dolls are right up there with clowns on the creepy scale.

#uncannyoctober #spookyoctober

JamesChatham I hope you enjoy The Haunting of Hill House! I read it last year for a class and it‘s become one of my favorites! 7y
MidnightBookGirl I love The Haunting of Hill House and The Girl With All The Gifts. 7y
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Blair_Reads
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen
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The first sentence has me hooked!

callunakeep @DiruVamp This sounds really good! 8y
Marchpane This looks great! Hope the rest of it lives up to that opening line! 8y
DiruVamp @callunakeep oh wow yes it does! 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 oof...and the tbr is one book taller! 8y
Zelma Whoa, that is an intense first sentence. 😬 8y
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Blair_Reads
The Uninvited | Liz Jensen

The first sentence has me hooked!