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A review by lacyk_reads
The Uninvited by Cat Winters
3.0
We don't read much about the disdain and distrust felt towards German immigrants in the early 1900s. I feel like my high school American history class focused much more on what was happening abroad than what was actually happening in the U.S.
This book is a look in that time - flu was running rampant and killing indiscriminately, underage boys were lying about their age and shipped off to war, immigrants lived in fear of their American neighbors, and everyone else was looking for someone to blame for all the misfortune.
I loved the setting of this book, It was a look inside our past, which I didn't realize existed, but found to be very interesting. There is also supernatural twist, and it was done very well. It wasn't as spooky as what I would have liked, but that's ok.
My biggest beef with this story - and maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on this - was the main character through which we saw this world. She was shallow and an unpredictable narrator sometimes. I couldn't follow her motivations at times and, by the end of the book, still felt I didn't know her.
Regardless, it was an interesting and pretty quick read.
This book is a look in that time - flu was running rampant and killing indiscriminately, underage boys were lying about their age and shipped off to war, immigrants lived in fear of their American neighbors, and everyone else was looking for someone to blame for all the misfortune.
I loved the setting of this book, It was a look inside our past, which I didn't realize existed, but found to be very interesting. There is also supernatural twist, and it was done very well. It wasn't as spooky as what I would have liked, but that's ok.
My biggest beef with this story - and maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on this - was the main character through which we saw this world. She was shallow and an unpredictable narrator sometimes. I couldn't follow her motivations at times and, by the end of the book, still felt I didn't know her.
Regardless, it was an interesting and pretty quick read.