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The Uninvited

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Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked t...more

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Published May 12th 2009 by Candlewick Press

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Apr 01, 2012 Cassi aka Snow White Haggard rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, read-in-2012

Rarely do I actually write a review for a 1 star book. However I found The Univited so frustrating and borderline offense that I feel the need to explain my feelings.

I was iffy about this book when they introduced the main character driving down the road just wearing a bra. Not a sports bra, but a bra and not for any real reason. When a male writer creates a female character who's beautiful, sexy and often not wearing many clothes, I'm a little leery. Sometimes it feels like male writers create...more Rarely do I actually write a review for a 1 star book. However I found The Univited so frustrating and borderline offense that I feel the need to explain my feelings.

I was iffy about this book when they introduced the main character driving down the road just wearing a bra. Not a sports bra, but a bra and not for any real reason. When a male writer creates a female character who's beautiful, sexy and often not wearing many clothes, I'm a little leery. Sometimes it feels like male writers create heroines who are merely their fantasies, not real well-devolved characters. It's like "look I'm a sassy free woman comfortable with my sexuality" but it's done in a way that doesn't feels genuine.

My discomfort grew with an unnamed character (you later find out who) is spying on Mimi, refers to one of her friends as "faggy." I'm not saying it's not okay to have homophobic characters. Homophobes exist. But it was used casually without any purpose to illustrate that a guy was effeminate. I know most authors would argue "but that's what the character says" but when it's not necessary it should be edited out. I'm not comfortable reading books with hate speech unless it is addressing the issue of hate.

This book had a plot that seemed to amble without going anywhere. Someone is spying on Mimi and Jay (the second main character), being a creeper. The story has numerous POVs, which is not that well executed. The POVS eliminate all the drama of who's spying. The reader knows who's spying and why they are spying. Now that I've had a couple weeks away from this book I'm wondering where the story was even going. Mimi was trying to write a screenplay. Jay was trying to write a song. They were building a friendship. Creeper dude was spying and lusting. But what was the real point?

This book also had a creepy case of sibling lust. It started when Mimi showed up and met Jay who (SPOILER ALERT) is her half brother. Even after she realizes that she still finds him attractive. However that was minor and quickly went away. But there's another half-sibling lurking in this book. And he lusts after Mimi, admiring everything about her, imagining a life with her. He doesn't know that she's his sister. But the reader knows and that makes it creepy enough. This goes on for chapters and chapters. And honestly I'm not sure where the sibling-lust ends because I did not finish this book.

I've only ever DNFed one book. Normally I stubbornly force myself through a book, even if it's a miserable reading experience, because I don't want the book to beat me. I couldn't fight this book. The plot seemed to be going nowhere, the main character felt flat and every time the sibling-lust came up I cringed. To me it was pretty obvious the author was trying to be edgy. But sometimes less is more. Where this book is concerned, I recommend avoiding it altogether.

In case you are wondering I listened to this on audiobook. I listened to 5/7 CDs before stopping. The narrator was unremarkable but not bad either. The problem was the story itself.(less)

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Aug 25, 2011 Louise rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller-suspense

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Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she’s glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint, and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be, so she’s shocked to find someone already living there — Jay, a young musician, who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immed...more

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Jan 13, 2009 Kathi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow, this is a page turner! Three characters are drawn to a small, solitary house on a snye (read it to find out) for their own reasons. Of the three, two are completely unaware of the third except as a threat, an invisible menace.

But is the third the enemy? Or is the third the final key in discovering who each one really is?

I couldn't put this book down. And the setting itself, the house, the watery domain upon which it sits, becomes a character itself, pushing and pulling the three main charac...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Ashley rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had the longest review I have ever written typed up for this book, and my browser unexpectedly closed. WOE. I may type it all up again one day if I can find the motivation, but here is a Sparks Notes version:

The stupid plot. (view spoiler)...more

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Nov 01, 2012 Asha R rated it 4 of 5 stars

In a perfect little town, where everyone is kind and friendly, there is a person who doesn't really draw attention to themselves. They’re the kind of person someone would meet, but later on wouldn't really remember because they didn't leave a big impression on them. This person may seem nice, but people don’t know about all the bad things they have done.

In the book The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones, that person in the little town is Cramer Lee. In this realistic fiction the first wrong thing of...more In a perfect little town, where everyone is kind and friendly, there is a person who doesn't really draw attention to themselves. They’re the kind of person someone would meet, but later on wouldn't really remember because they didn't leave a big impression on them. This person may seem nice, but people don’t know about all the bad things they have done.

In the book The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones, that person in the little town is Cramer Lee. In this realistic fiction the first wrong thing of the many things he did was steal a necklace. “You tell me if it isn't the same color as my eyes. Like it was made for me. You hear me?. . . I should have that necklace, honey. You get it for me okay?” Mavis Lee, Cramer’s mother, had said this to Cramer when she saw the necklace around her doctor’s neck. Mavis knows that Cramer would do anything for her, so she knows how to manipulate him into getting her not necessarily what she needs, but what she wants.

Mimi Shapiro is a happy and carefree person. She drove up to that little town in Canada to get away from things that were stressing her. When she goes to the house her dad told her she would find in Canada, she meets a musician named Jay who is already living in the house. Jay is a worrier. He stresses out about a lot of things, and when something doesn't seem right, you can always count on him to be the one to take control of the situation. Even though Jay and Mimi are almost complete opposites, they decided that they would just share the house and live together.

When Mimi’s belongings start to go missing, she doesn't really think any drastic precautions should be taken. Jay, on the other hand, said that they should have talked to the police. Mimi convinces Jay not to tell the police, until later on more things are stolen from the house. Mimi and Jay had come home to find the door to their house slightly ajar. This quote is from when Officer Roach wrote down that someone had taken Mimi’s red camcorder and two of Jay’s guitars. “So that’s a wine-red thirty-gigabyte JVC HDD?. . . And two guitars plus cases? A Gibson ES-175 with a sunburst finish and a powder-blue Fender Stratocaster?”

The event of objects going missing keeps happening, and Mimi and Jay are soon led to believe that Cramer Lee has been taking their stuff the whole time. Cramer had been so busy with taking their stuff, that he sort of stopped paying attention to his mom. Mavis would tell Cramer she knew what he was up to, because she could smell perfume on Cramer when he came home some days. “I know about her, Cramer! You think I don’t know nothing, but you’re wrong.” Mavis was mad at Cramer, until she found out who the girl Cramer had been seeing was. It was Mimi, and when Mavis found that out, she made a plan of revenge to get back at Mimi for taking Cramer’s attention.

In the end, Cramer gave back the things he stole and confessed to taking them. Mimi and Jay forgave him because he did the right thing. This book is like the book Because of Winn-Dixie because in that book, one of the lessons is that you should try and do the right thing, but if you do, do something wrong, you should apologize and make it up. I gave The Uninvited 4 stars because not only did the book teach important lessons, but it also had very interesting twists throughout the whole story. (less)

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Apr 21, 2012 Anne added it

Shelves: mystery, realistic-fiction

Mimi Shapiro needs to take a break from New York City to get away from the NYU professor who is taking things a little too far. It seems perfect when her father tells her that she can stay at his little cottage in Canada. It’s definitely in a remote area, but maybe a little too remote. When Mimi arrives, she finds someone else living there: Jay, a young musician.

Strange things have been happening at the cabin; someone is getting into the house, without any evidence of a break in, and leaving odd...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Angie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At first, I was quite intrigued with the opening scene sequence and started to really like the story, but after about 6 chapters I started getting a bit bored and felt a bit mislead by the implications of the blurb. I kept reading it, bit by bit, but I didn't really feel it was one of those "Can't put down! Must stay awake all night and FINISH!" kind of books, like Modoc by Ralph Helfer. Eventually the last 3 chapters got a bit thrilling and interesting but it all felt a little out of place due...more

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Jun 01, 2011 Niki Mclaren rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadiana, young-adults

I had very low expectations for this book as I had heard nothing but bad things about it from friends, so it gets three stars for being better than I thought it would be. The Uninvited is about a young female from NYC who gets into a spot of trouble with a older, married professor from her university and decides to go stay at her fathers cabin in Ontario. Upon arriving, she finds out that she has a half brother she never knew about, who accuses her of leaving behind creepy items as well as steal...more

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Oct 24, 2010 How To rated it 3 of 5 stars

The plot of the Uninvited has an enticing premise, which ultimately fell short of carrying out the realness almost accomplished with the characters. The novel starts with Mimi Shapiro, a beautiful girl attending NYU who decides to leave to Canada after a relationship with a professor became a little too intimate.
She moves away to a snye close to Toronto (which I had no knowledge of, until Google images courteously relieved me of confusion) where her twice divorced, and present father once painte...more The plot of the Uninvited has an enticing premise, which ultimately fell short of carrying out the realness almost accomplished with the characters. The novel starts with Mimi Shapiro, a beautiful girl attending NYU who decides to leave to Canada after a relationship with a professor became a little too intimate.
She moves away to a snye close to Toronto (which I had no knowledge of, until Google images courteously relieved me of confusion) where her twice divorced, and present father once painted. Mimi had found a small cozy cottage satisfying her dire need for peace.

The author went to great lengths to produce extremely detailed settings, even if it was the same setting at a different time. This was an ordeal for me as my attention span isn’t exactly the largest. I often found myself dozing off to a description of a fly curiously buzzing around, or how a deep green marsh smelled.

Mimi arrives at the snye, to find that someone is already living there. This person later turns out to be her brother. This is where the plot becomes a bit disturbing, as Mimi’s character develops; she finds inappropriate thoughts of her and her long lost brother, Jay. This is the least of our worries as there is someone breaking into their house and leaving dead birds, stealing rocks, and moving things around. Not ideally the thriller I had hoped or expected. This stalker is in love with her, and later also turns out to be her other long lost brother, Cramer, what a coincidence...

This novel had an awkward way of everything tying together a bit too coincidentally, three siblings in one summer, two of which decided to further interfere with each other’s lives. I would even dare to say that if any of these thoughts had developed further, or the almost intense stalker brother, Cramer, had become an intense, rapist, stalker brother, this novel would be incestful, unnerving, and surprisingly, worth reading.

This book falls short of what it could have become, and intense murder, rape, and mystery. Twisted with incest, affairs, and completely not-age appropriate. A Nora Roberts tribute, instead, it became a family drama, with characters so close to real, but substantially falling short. The story ended up being product as the characters lost feel, and sounded scripted. The lacking plot, unfulfillment, and attempt to realness, was ultimately, a disappointment.
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Nov 28, 2009 Sarah Evans rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: washyarg

Despite the title and eerie cover art, this is not a ghost story, nor is it much of a thriller, but actually a twisted drama. First we meet Cramer, a young man trying desperately to keep his mentally disturbed mother from falling to pieces. We sense that his mother’s emotional abuse and crazy demands to support her attempts at art has warped his life. Next we meet our main character, Mimi, whose first year at NYU turned disastrous when the married professor she hooked up with became possessive a...more

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Nov 09, 2009 Brenda rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was an "okay" book for me....not the best and most gripping suspense but enough that I wanted to find out how it all tide together.

It starts out with a very gripping premise...Mimi, a young girl who is leaving New York for a vacation to sort out her mind decides to stay in a home her father told her about in Canada. When she finally finds the isolated little house, she realizes that she is not the only one staying there...another young man is using the house named Jay. Soon, Jay and Mimi r...more

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Sep 17, 2009 Ashley Manzueta rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: school-books

The Uninvited is a book about a girl named Mimi who goes away to live in house called the Snye that her father owns out in Canada. Mimi goes to Canada to get away from the affair shes been having with her former Professer, Lazer. Once she gets there she finds a guy living in her fathers house and finds out that he is actually her half brother, Jay, and that they have the same dad. there has been really wierd stuff happening there lately. A stranger named Cramer has inside the house for a while n...more

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Jul 21, 2009 Nicole rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-read-more-than-bush-09

Following an affair with her college professor, Mimi decides to escape to an isolated property her father owns. When she arrives, she discovers the house is already in use by a recent college graduate. The two are thinking about how attractive the other is when something shocking is revealed—Mimi is at her father’s home, but Jay is at his father’s home as well. It seems their father forgot to mention he had a son in Canada before moving to New York and meeting Mimi’s mother. But this isn’t the e...more

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Jul 21, 2009 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

A little bit spooky, a little bit eerie, a whole lot of family problems. The three young ones, Mimi, Jay, and another guy Cramer, act as the main characters. The viewpoint switches from each of those characters often.

The story is just so compelling. It’s very hard to put down, especially towards to the end. Actually no. At the end, it is impossible to put down. I just had to speed through it to figure out what’s happening.

Basically, there are two mysteries. One is introduced in the synopsis, bei...more A little bit spooky, a little bit eerie, a whole lot of family problems. The three young ones, Mimi, Jay, and another guy Cramer, act as the main characters. The viewpoint switches from each of those characters often.

The story is just so compelling. It’s very hard to put down, especially towards to the end. Actually no. At the end, it is impossible to put down. I just had to speed through it to figure out what’s happening.

Basically, there are two mysteries. One is introduced in the synopsis, being Jay is getting these creepy presents. It escalates to thievery and so Jay, Mimi, and also Cramer on his own, are trying to figure out just who is taking all the stuff. I guess it’s not really a considered a mystery, but the second to me is: each of the main characters know a little bit, but not everything of the story. There’s all these different relations between Jay, Mimi, and Cramer, and none of them know all of them to what extent. It’s a bit confusing what I’m saying, but I don’t want to spoil anything…

I thought some of the phrasing was a little funny. The story takes place by a snye (look it up on Google- lots of pictures to place the setting and atmosphere) in Ontario so I guess it makes sense. These are not city folk, and so a lot of them have odd phrasing and speak differently than usual.

A thing I really liked about this book, being Canadian, is that it takes place in Canada, specifically in Ontario close to Ottawa. There were many Canadian references like the University of British Colombia (where my parents went), all the big cities close by, like Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal, etc. As much as I love American books too, Canadian books hold a special place in my heart. Okay, yes, I will go barf at my corniness now.

It’s honestly just this really intense read that’s completely gripping. The setting is amazing and richly detailed. The characters are interesting, all with their separate histories, pasts, and problems, but they all seem to converge on this same path. The ending is a complete shocker. You may think you know the culprit, but no, no, you don’t. Figuring out the mystery is just what keeps you going until the very end.(less)

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Jun 20, 2009 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews

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...more

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May 14, 2009 Barry rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: client-s-books

I've known Tim a long time, and had always wanted to work with him, so I was thrilled when he finally decided he was ready for an agent. And to start with a mind-blowing book like this was just icing on the cake. I could say a lot about this book, but who cares what I think? Read what THEY think:

"A nervy, triple-knotted pretzel of a plot that reads partly like a sexy paeon to creativity and partly like a choral scream."

--Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

"The Uninvited" is a terrific book. Tim...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Tani Griffin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: engl-420

TIM WYNNE-JONES CATEGORY After her first year of college, Mimi finds herself needing to run away from a professor. When her sometime-father tells her she can spend the summer at an old house on the banks of a river in Canada, she leaves New York. But she finds the house already occupied by Jackson Page, a brother she never knew existed. They feel an immediate connection, and together, face the fact that at least one intruder is more interested in the house than either of them. Wynne-Jones has cr...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Hope rated it 3 of 5 stars

I’ve seen this book around the bookstores, but for some reason I thought it was an adult book. I was quite surprised that it was shelved in YA section. To tell you the truth I was not sure what to think of this book, I did not hate it but I did not love it either. I think I just liked it.

After reading first two chapters, I was not sure if I should continue reading it, because I was getting bored. But I stuck it through and the story picked up. Book was well written and it was filled with myster...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Mackenzie English rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was pretty good, and it was a thriller. It's about a girl named Mimi who is very stressed about school, so she goes to her dad's secret get-away. When she gets there, she realizes Jay (her brother she didn't know about) is already staying there, and that somebody has been doing strange things to the house. He's been adding stuff through the windows, and watching them, and stealing stuff from Mimi, so he can help his mom out. The theft's name is Cramer. He's an older, creepier guy. In t...more

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Aug 17, 2010 Chelsea rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Apr 06, 2011 H.Lee rated it 3 of 5 stars

I thought that this book was going to be paranormal, like a ghost or something from reading the back, but it was not. It was an okay read and anyone whom likes a psychological thriller, would probably love it!

Mimi is running away from something at college, she has packed up her belongings and headed to her father's old cottage in Canada. There she can do some thinking and figure out her next move.

Jay enjoys the old cottage down on the snye. He likes to play his music and uses the house for rest...more

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Nov 28, 2010 Catherine rated it 1 of 5 stars

The cover of this book looks like its going to be a scary spooky story....but it's not.
The dialogue between characters is mostly contrived and unbelievable. The female main character (Mimi) is annoying and depressing (kinda like Bella in "Twilight"). The whole thing read like a bad movie/screenplay.
The following review by P. Donovan “English Teacher” (Mississauga,Ont) expresses my sentiments exactly!!....
This novel is anything but fresh and unique. In fact, it is little more than contrived and f...more

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Jul 09, 2009 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, age-ya, age-adult, thriller, mystery

I picked this up at my library because it sounded interesting. A girl goes up to use her father's vacation house and finds someone already living there... someone who then accuses her of leaving weird items around the house for him to find.

First off, I wasn't sure why this book was in the YA area. It felt to me more like an adult book - all of the characters are in college or older, and the point of views switches between three of them - Mimi (the girl), Jay (the boy living at her father's house...more

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Jun 02, 2009 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, young-adult

For once, I really don't like this cover art. It just doesn't do the book justice. Don't ask me what should be on it instead, but-this just isn't enough. There are too many elements swirling around in this vortex of a book for the cover to be right. This novel will trick you, by creeping the suspense up on you slowly, so when a terrifying moment does finally arrive, you'll be caught off your guard. Think of a mix between Emily Bronte and Brad Meltzer.

The writing used here is simplistic, but eno...more

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Aug 24, 2010 Stevecrandell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: grades-10-and-up, suspense

Wynne-Jones builds waves of sexual tension and violence in this novel, but I like his forces of nature more than his characters.

Mimi Shapiro is a New York City college freshman who runs to Canada to escape a disastrous affair. She frequently erupts in anger, profanity, and self-righteousness – a strong girl with a magnet for conflict. Her half-brother Jay is a moody protector. Cramer is the most disturbed of the three main young characters – he spent his high school time stalking Jay, before ta...more

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Jun 10, 2009 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

When Mimi Shapiro and Jackson Page discover they share a philandering father, who has given each of them permission to use his former studio in the Canadian woods, they agree to share the house; but someone else is visiting them as well.
This tense family drama has moments when you think you are reading a horror story relieved by plentiful detail about the splendid setting. 22-year-old Jackson is a musician, using the cottage as a recording studio; College sophomore Mimi, an aspiring film writer,...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Aube D'été Holgate rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: alternate-pov, conspiracy, depressing-books, family-focus, mysterious, revenge, sadness, secrets

Wow. To discover that big of a secret and be so ok-with-it is truly... questionable (?) I'm not so sure. However, to these three people, finding out about long lost siblings is at first and second, a small-shock-that-can-be-gotten-over, and third a disappointment-but-not-in-a-bad-way.

Mimi heads to Canada to escape a complicated affair that seems to slightly follow her. Jay is confused about where is lays within his wanted career path. Cramer is judged, conflicted, and selfless yet still comes of...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Aimen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, one-of-the-better-books

THE UNINVITED is one of those books that were obviously created with big ambitions but ended up falling flat. Wynne-Jones has a habit of getting in his own way as a writer, constantly pulling the reader out of the story with his clunky writing and failed attempts at fleshing out the characters. Mimi Shapiro initially comes off as those annoying, annoying people that I wish I could slap. She does get better over time and her incessantly perky attitude offers a nice contrast to Cramer's dark and b...more THE UNINVITED is one of those books that were obviously created with big ambitions but ended up falling flat. Wynne-Jones has a habit of getting in his own way as a writer, constantly pulling the reader out of the story with his clunky writing and failed attempts at fleshing out the characters. Mimi Shapiro initially comes off as those annoying, annoying people that I wish I could slap. She does get better over time and her incessantly perky attitude offers a nice contrast to Cramer's dark and broody narrative. Ultimately, I found Cramer's voice to be much more fascinating.

The dude is obviously awkward and Wynne-Jones shows it well. The story ends well and there are some vaguely scary parts and some which are absolutely edgy in their suspense but these are few and far between. The story never quite propels to the climax that I was expecting and if it had, I would probably have been kinder in my rating. But the story consists mostly of too much build-up and not enough delivery and the writing is just ridiculous at times.

The truth is that my first impression of the writing wasn't that bad but right after THE UNINVITED I got the Hunger Games for my birthday and flew through the first part within four hours. This is because Collins draws her story with eery precision and is exceptional at not getting in the way of her own story. Wynne-Jones fails epicly in that respect.

I wouldn't be so harsh but I expect that if you're writing a book and you have an epic plot, then you should first be good at the medium that you're using to deliver your story. Wynne-Jones doesn't suck - he really doesn't - but if you read two books in a row and one just happens to be one of the most neatly written books you've ever read and the other happens to be bleh in its execution, then you're bound to compare.

In the end, THE UNINVITED is a good book. It's readable, in the sense that you can stay up till one reading it but not much later. It has a good plot but suffers from clunky writing that fucking got on my nerves. 3.5 Stars.(less)

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Sep 13, 2012 AshleyiSee rated it 3 of 5 stars

Mimi, an undergraduate student in New York has had a hellish year. Running away from her life for a bit she drives threw Canada to an old house along the syne that her estranged father owns. It was supposed to be a perfect hiding place. It was supposed to be a space for her to write and work out her troubles. It became a treasure trove of secrets and fear. At nineteen, Mimi floats along on a river journey that she didn’t sign up for but she isn’t able to fight the current.

The Uninvited is full...more

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Mar 26, 2011 P.E. rated it 2 of 5 stars

The Uninvited by Tim Wynne Jones was completely different from what I expected.

The story was told in the alternating perspective of Mimi, Jay and Cramer. They were all very different characters with different voices. Mimi did many things through out the story that I found out of character so I didn't connect too much with her. Jay didn't have a huge part in the story after he and Mimi were initially introduced, and Cramer, well, he's special. I won't go any further than that.

To be honest, I wasn...more

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Tim Wynne-Jones (born 12 August 1948) is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.

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