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tron2lovely's review against another edition
4.0
Wow!
I honestly had no idea what to expect when reading this book! It kept me from the very first page. This book is well written because when reading it I began to question if Rinn's crazy thoughts could possibly be real. Takes you on a rollercoaster and for a minute has you thinking you might be going a bit of crazy with the main character in this book. I love this book! Great read and has so scary moments at times.
I honestly had no idea what to expect when reading this book! It kept me from the very first page. This book is well written because when reading it I began to question if Rinn's crazy thoughts could possibly be real. Takes you on a rollercoaster and for a minute has you thinking you might be going a bit of crazy with the main character in this book. I love this book! Great read and has so scary moments at times.
celjla212's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars...
Rinn Jacobs has just moved with her mom to a small Ohio town after a tragedy in their hometown in California left her grandmother dead. Rinn is now medicated and comfortably numb.
Soon, she makes friends, who tell her that not only is their school haunted by a girl who drowned in the school's pool, but the girl's grandmother hanged herself in the very room where Rinn sleeps. Creepy and horrific things start happening to Rinn's friends. She must decide if it's really a ghost, or if she's still crazy and hearing the voices in her head...
I found this book pretty easy to read and I finished it quickly. The mood of the book was somber, but the language was light and conversations flowed nicely.
Rinn is supremely likable, very honest, and pretty unguarded for someone who went through what she did. She seems to see herself as an outcast, but it didn't take her long to make friends and start dating a cute guy.
It was really interesting to read a book where the main character suffered from a mental illness. Especially at the Young Adult level. I feel like many teens may suffer from mental illnesses and not even know about it. To have a book where the main character is bipolar at least lets teens know there are others out there like them.
The ghost aspect of this story was pretty creepy, I must admit. Though of course for a non-believer like myself, I had to suspend my disbelief while reading this book. The scholar in me was trying to figure out the scientific reasons behind why all the otherworldly things were happening.
The book gradually builds suspense up to a bloody crescendo. But it totally lost me at the end. I'm still not 100 % sure what happened after that Christmas concert in that pool room. But, like I said....disbelief has to be suspended for me to enjoy a ghost story.
If you like ghost stories and really believe, I would recommend this book to you. If you're more of the scientific type...skip it.
Rinn Jacobs has just moved with her mom to a small Ohio town after a tragedy in their hometown in California left her grandmother dead. Rinn is now medicated and comfortably numb.
Soon, she makes friends, who tell her that not only is their school haunted by a girl who drowned in the school's pool, but the girl's grandmother hanged herself in the very room where Rinn sleeps. Creepy and horrific things start happening to Rinn's friends. She must decide if it's really a ghost, or if she's still crazy and hearing the voices in her head...
I found this book pretty easy to read and I finished it quickly. The mood of the book was somber, but the language was light and conversations flowed nicely.
Rinn is supremely likable, very honest, and pretty unguarded for someone who went through what she did. She seems to see herself as an outcast, but it didn't take her long to make friends and start dating a cute guy.
It was really interesting to read a book where the main character suffered from a mental illness. Especially at the Young Adult level. I feel like many teens may suffer from mental illnesses and not even know about it. To have a book where the main character is bipolar at least lets teens know there are others out there like them.
The ghost aspect of this story was pretty creepy, I must admit. Though of course for a non-believer like myself, I had to suspend my disbelief while reading this book. The scholar in me was trying to figure out the scientific reasons behind why all the otherworldly things were happening.
The book gradually builds suspense up to a bloody crescendo. But it totally lost me at the end. I'm still not 100 % sure what happened after that Christmas concert in that pool room. But, like I said....disbelief has to be suspended for me to enjoy a ghost story.
If you like ghost stories and really believe, I would recommend this book to you. If you're more of the scientific type...skip it.
thebookhaze's review against another edition
3.0
It was pretty scary as far as horror stories go, especially since the weather was dark and gloomy the day I read it. The storyline itself was sometimes frustrating, seriously, why were the adults being so secretive if they knew what was going on and could've done something to stop their own children dying?! FFS. I also didn't like some of the characters, Lacy, and I think there were waaaayyy too many unnecessary deaths. I also didn't like Tasha's mom, who was a bitch. Still, it was a good read if what you want is a scare.
brisbookreviews's review against another edition
4.0
The Unquiet was a wonderful read. The plot was original and I enjoyed the drama/paranormal aspect. The story and characters were well thought of and written well. I absolutely LOVE urban legends and this book was a great example. I also enjoyed the authors note at the end. I did find myself towards the middle/end just wanting to get the book over with, it dragged a bit for me. However I did enjoy The Unquiet and rate it 4 out of 5 stars.
http://memoriesovertakingme.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-unquiet-by-jeannine-garsee.html
http://memoriesovertakingme.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-unquiet-by-jeannine-garsee.html
vizira's review against another edition
2.0
kind of super garbage but still pretty fun i just really like cheesy ghost stories ok
mellabella's review against another edition
3.0
I thought The Unquiet was OK. The premise was really good. It just lacked scares and...Somewhere in the middle the writing became weird. I would say it's worth a read however.
m_h_dahl's review against another edition
2.0
Is they’re really a YA novel without a scene where the teens sit in a circle with candles and play Ouija board, and suddenly scary, inexplicable things happen and the candles go out, it gets so so dark and everyone gets scared?
I think The Unquiet is somehow a pale version of Mean Girls.
Or a non-scary version of The Vampire Diaries, but without any vampires.
Or a bad version of Pretty Little Liars, but without an A who blackmailes someone.
You have probably read about similar characters before. The mean girls who gang backbite each other when one of them is not present. The handsome, popular jackass on the football team. The outcast girl who is laughed at. The mentally ill protagonist with a mysterious and dark past, that can not always trust her own senses. Did it really happen, or was it just something she imagined? We never know for sure.
I think the book is more about the main character trying to be liked by the mean girls, than that it is actually a mystery.
When I read a mystery / horror novel, I need it to be beautiful in the mundane, with interesting characters, and with a fine line between the grotesque and the beauty.
The atmosphere must be some kind of a dark, twisted fairy tale with destructive, huge cracks beneath the surface.
The setting must be captivating - which in this case is a pool in a high school. Therefore, it took a lot to raise this story to the same level as the fantastic book cover … Had it not been for the captivating book cover, I dom’t think I would have picked up this book in the first place …
The Unquiet is a non-scary ghost story with shallow personalities, banalities and clichés.
The fact that I actually finished reading this book is almost a miracle. But once I start a book, I always think they deserve a chance before I give it up. I skimmed it only for the paragraphs that seemes interesting - but no, this wasn’t horror to me. Not at all.
So if you are looking for horror that scares the shit out of you, this is probably not the right book.
And it’s not a guarantie at all that you automatically would like this book only cause you’re fan of the movie Black Swan … It's fairer to compare this book to the TV-show, Scream - just replace the serial killer with a ghost … This reading was a waste of time for me - and I’m a huge fan of Black Swan!)
A book can definitely not be written for everyone, and The Unquiet wasn’t written for me.
But if you’re hooked on gritty and bloody teen series and need a dose of high school drama, with some ghosts, mean girls and a mentally ill protagonist who refuse to take her medicines and caused by that, maybe is a killer in her past (- cause it’s always like that with mentally illness in movies and books: it is often sooo exaggerated, and isn’t exactly helpful in combating prejudices about mental illness.)
Sounds interesting? you've probably found the right book.
(The Unquiet gets an extra star for having a fantastic book cover)
I think The Unquiet is somehow a pale version of Mean Girls.
Or a non-scary version of The Vampire Diaries, but without any vampires.
Or a bad version of Pretty Little Liars, but without an A who blackmailes someone.
You have probably read about similar characters before. The mean girls who gang backbite each other when one of them is not present. The handsome, popular jackass on the football team. The outcast girl who is laughed at. The mentally ill protagonist with a mysterious and dark past, that can not always trust her own senses. Did it really happen, or was it just something she imagined? We never know for sure.
I think the book is more about the main character trying to be liked by the mean girls, than that it is actually a mystery.
When I read a mystery / horror novel, I need it to be beautiful in the mundane, with interesting characters, and with a fine line between the grotesque and the beauty.
The atmosphere must be some kind of a dark, twisted fairy tale with destructive, huge cracks beneath the surface.
The setting must be captivating - which in this case is a pool in a high school. Therefore, it took a lot to raise this story to the same level as the fantastic book cover … Had it not been for the captivating book cover, I dom’t think I would have picked up this book in the first place …
The Unquiet is a non-scary ghost story with shallow personalities, banalities and clichés.
The fact that I actually finished reading this book is almost a miracle. But once I start a book, I always think they deserve a chance before I give it up. I skimmed it only for the paragraphs that seemes interesting - but no, this wasn’t horror to me. Not at all.
So if you are looking for horror that scares the shit out of you, this is probably not the right book.
And it’s not a guarantie at all that you automatically would like this book only cause you’re fan of the movie Black Swan … It's fairer to compare this book to the TV-show, Scream - just replace the serial killer with a ghost … This reading was a waste of time for me - and I’m a huge fan of Black Swan!)
A book can definitely not be written for everyone, and The Unquiet wasn’t written for me.
But if you’re hooked on gritty and bloody teen series and need a dose of high school drama, with some ghosts, mean girls and a mentally ill protagonist who refuse to take her medicines and caused by that, maybe is a killer in her past (- cause it’s always like that with mentally illness in movies and books: it is often sooo exaggerated, and isn’t exactly helpful in combating prejudices about mental illness.)
Sounds interesting? you've probably found the right book.
(The Unquiet gets an extra star for having a fantastic book cover)
trisha_thomas's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed the story - it's creepy and sucks you in....
but I got bored right around the middle. It was great to have so much suspense and back story, but there had to be a better way to go about it. It felt like nothing really happened for about 100 pages.
And I loved the description of bipolar. I thought it was handled very respectfully but with so much depth - the struggle with loving the high. I just thought it was so well done.
If it hadn't lost me for a minute in the middle, this easily would have been a 5 star read. Just a great story and character development.
but I got bored right around the middle. It was great to have so much suspense and back story, but there had to be a better way to go about it. It felt like nothing really happened for about 100 pages.
And I loved the description of bipolar. I thought it was handled very respectfully but with so much depth - the struggle with loving the high. I just thought it was so well done.
If it hadn't lost me for a minute in the middle, this easily would have been a 5 star read. Just a great story and character development.
nikkidreads's review against another edition
4.0
My Favorite Lines:
“I loved the ‘high’ part of being bipolar. I loved being able to research, write, and print out a term paper in one evening, not that anything I wrote made sense. I loved staying awake for days on end, talking to anyone about everything.”
“When I slide the switch, the smoky beam swings over the faces of my friends. Meg, Lacy, Tasha, and Dino. Faces frozen. Eyes unblinking. Mouths stretched in soundless screams.”
Why I Loved It: I had been looking forward to this book for a while. It sounded interesting enough to make it one of my WoW picks. I found it really interesting that Jeannine Garsee had/has worked as a psychiatric nurse, and her main character in this book had been diagnosed as bipolar. I started to have high hopes for the book. Now keeping in mind that I wasn’t sure about how the paranormal part was going to come in, I started the book with a great deal of anticipation. I have to be honest. I was not disappointed. Now it wasn’t quite the book that I just “couldn’t put down” but I really enjoyed reading the book before bed every night.
Rinn is sixteen, and she has just landed in a new school. Her past is full of some crazy events that resulted from her bipolar diagnosis. There is one tragedy of her past that is haunting her present. That isn't the only thing that is haunting her. It seems an lady had recently committed suicide in her new bedroom. And that lady’s granddaughter also haunts the pool room at school. When some pretty strange things start happening, Rinn has to question if it’s her or if ghosts truly do exist.
Nate, the love interest in the book, was pretty gorgeous sounding. He had that country flair that I seem to have a weakness for. I also loved his pet name for Rinn.
The only real weakness of the book for me was that character development could have been been a bit better. I wanted more about some of the characters to really feel grief for them. Regardless it was still a pretty awesome book.
Who Should Read It: For those readers, kind of like me, that really love contemporary books that deal with real issues like Ellen Hopkins, but also get really into some of the paranormal books, you should check this one out. It's not too intense paranormal-wise, so if intensity is a must have, this book may not be enough for you. It's perfect for that before bed reading time.
“I loved the ‘high’ part of being bipolar. I loved being able to research, write, and print out a term paper in one evening, not that anything I wrote made sense. I loved staying awake for days on end, talking to anyone about everything.”
“When I slide the switch, the smoky beam swings over the faces of my friends. Meg, Lacy, Tasha, and Dino. Faces frozen. Eyes unblinking. Mouths stretched in soundless screams.”
Why I Loved It: I had been looking forward to this book for a while. It sounded interesting enough to make it one of my WoW picks. I found it really interesting that Jeannine Garsee had/has worked as a psychiatric nurse, and her main character in this book had been diagnosed as bipolar. I started to have high hopes for the book. Now keeping in mind that I wasn’t sure about how the paranormal part was going to come in, I started the book with a great deal of anticipation. I have to be honest. I was not disappointed. Now it wasn’t quite the book that I just “couldn’t put down” but I really enjoyed reading the book before bed every night.
Rinn is sixteen, and she has just landed in a new school. Her past is full of some crazy events that resulted from her bipolar diagnosis. There is one tragedy of her past that is haunting her present. That isn't the only thing that is haunting her. It seems an lady had recently committed suicide in her new bedroom. And that lady’s granddaughter also haunts the pool room at school. When some pretty strange things start happening, Rinn has to question if it’s her or if ghosts truly do exist.
Nate, the love interest in the book, was pretty gorgeous sounding. He had that country flair that I seem to have a weakness for. I also loved his pet name for Rinn.
The only real weakness of the book for me was that character development could have been been a bit better. I wanted more about some of the characters to really feel grief for them. Regardless it was still a pretty awesome book.
Who Should Read It: For those readers, kind of like me, that really love contemporary books that deal with real issues like Ellen Hopkins, but also get really into some of the paranormal books, you should check this one out. It's not too intense paranormal-wise, so if intensity is a must have, this book may not be enough for you. It's perfect for that before bed reading time.
kitsunebi_reads's review against another edition
5.0
I wish so much that I could give more stars to The Unquiet. I found a kindred spirit with Rinn, I was that weird girl in school, suffering from anxiety. I also found a surprising ghost story. Anymore it's hard for me to find a story that I can't figure out the ending long before I get there, let alone not anticipate "scares". This book left me with my mouth hanging open wondering what the frick? I was so into this book that I dealt with goose bumps and creepy feelings, so much that I started to freak out at normal house noises, even though I was alone, honestly it was broad day light. LOVED IT! Please tell me there's more from Jeannine Garsee in the future. Must read for anyone who wants a scare, perfect for Halloween.