Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

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I know many people felt that Davy’s character was unlikable, whiny and naïve. Nevertheless, I ended up loving her personality. When Davy is told that she has the kill gene, she is in complete denial. She doesn’t have urges or ideas of killing people. She’s still the Davy that she was at the start of this year. But no one listens to her, her best friend strands her, and other girls are no longer jealous of her. What’s to be jealous of when her boyfriend her left as well? To be frank, I was sympathetic towards Davy. And I hated everyone else. Especially the company that decided to be searching for people who could be holders of this disease. Only 17% in and I wanted to smash her best friend’s face, her boyfriend’s face, everyone’s face. Sophie Jordan certainly does well at creating a character that we can understand, fend and feel for. My only complaint with Davy’s character is that she felt too weak at times. I didn’t mind her weakness in general, it was intriguing to have a weak character in a dystopian world—however the amount of times someone rescue her (namely Sean) was annoying. I wanted her to grow tougher in this book. Hopefully I will see some of that in the sequel. I finished this book in 3 hours. 3 HOURS! I wanted to savor it. I swear I did! But this book, this story! It was meant to be devoured! Review to come soon! Uninvited tells the story of the enemy’s schemes to make us feel less than, left out, and lonely. His lies can cripple our courage, dismantle our dreams, and blind us to the beauty of God’s love; but TerKeurst reminds us that the fullness of God can be found in the radical act of “living loved”—in finally seeing ourselves the way God does, as children who were made to take hold of the love He freely gives. And what does the stupid government do to the carriers? They are excluded from every part of normal human life. They can't go to schools and colleges, can't have good jobs. Even after some minor infringement they get collar-like tattoos. Society ostracizes them, friends abandon them, they are being treated like plaque. And on top of that all, by the middle of the book, all carriers are being herded to Concentration Detention Camps. Based solely on one gene test! Well, as far as I know, having a particular gene doesn't guarantee that things are going to happen in a certain way. It's more like there is a greater probability and risk, but it is not set in stone. So why, tell me, why, do you decide to treat this risky group with violence that just makes them want to snap and go for revenge that much sooner? And how can they not take into account that the majority of these people are completely harmless, sometimes even more so than regular people. As if the rampant sexism wasn't enough, this novel is riddled with every YA P/N cliche out there and some of the most idiotic plot devices I've ever read about. Aside from the typical beautiful, good girl that's clueless about the real world and needs to be protected by the mysterious, misunderstood, beautiful bad boy, we have the always original "let's pair up for a group project". And at least Twilight had the decency to make them Biology lab partners and Nevermore had them work on works of literature, here they only have to make... a biography of the other person. What high school gives that assignment? What type of specialized program for dangerous kids does that? That has to be the laziest writing example I've seen of that plot devise to get the two protagonists talking and getting to know each other. It was almost offensive how stupid it was. And then, of course, the main guy points out a quirk no one that has known her for years had ever pointed out to her, in spite of the fact that he has only seen her about 3 times, and then tops it with "Maybe none of the were really paying attention." There's not a single character in this novel that comes across as anything else but one-dimensional. They are all poorly developed, often stereotyped, and mostly just there for the convenience of the protagonist.

In between the house talk and the ghost talk there were allusions to their Irish home and it was clear that their roots and their history were important to them. Uninvited really makes you wonder what our world would be like if the kill gene existed. Personally, I think Sophie Jordan did a spectacular at painting the scenario of a realistic world with people living with the kill gene. There would be real fear. Terror. Prejudice among citizens. I like how Jordan also adds short excerpts of interrogations, interviews, letters, information booklets and transcripts between each chapter to give us readers a better grasp on the world and additional world building with some facts about HTS. One of my larger complaints with Jordan’s latest is that I wanted more world building, a little bit more history of the world and other main characters.Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation. #UninvitedBook @LysaTerKeurst Additionally, the romance was trash. The love interest was just a red flag with a face. He had the worst case of instalove I've ever encountered and kept TELLING Davy how she should feel, and was physically forceful (grabbing, shaking) toward her quite often.

Such a classic of the supernatural. I first read this book when it was referenced by a character in another ghost story I enjoyed. One of those winding paths that leads you unexpectedly to a new favorite on your bookshelf. Als Davy dann endlich auf Caden trifft hab ich gehofft, dass jetzt endlich etwas mehr Action in die ganze Sache kommt, aber der richtige Schwung hat mir immer noch gefehlt. Es gibt zwar schon das ein oder andere, das Spannung reinbringt, aber richtig mitreißen konnte es mich nicht. Ugh. UGH! Why is it that I so often start out reading a new book all enthusiastic and optimistic and interested, but then get utterly disappointed? I honestly thought I was liking this book, I did, but after the initial world building was done and the characters were introduced, it all started to fall apart. I mean, could this world get any more ridiculous? And this is supposed to be our modern world several years into the future. Year 2021, to be precise. Right. In 2002, producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald produced the hit horror film The Ring, a remake of the Japanese film Ring. They subsequently produced the film's successful sequel The Ring Two in 2005. Since first starting this new cycle of Asian horror film adaptations, Parkes and MacDonald searched for a project they felt was as ingeniously conceived and executed as The Ring and finally found it when producer Roy Lee brought the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters to their attention. Once Davy starts her new life as a carrier she will meet new friends but nothing will be easy for her...The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public. #UninvitedBook @LysaTerKeurst

Another example is when she is using the olive tree as an illustration in Chapter 15, talking about being "crushed" and how God can use that to bring about good in our lives - but then she includes 2 Corinthians 4:8 which says we are pressed, but not crushed. Following that is a confusing monologue about being crushed, but at the same time we're not crushed, and I honestly had no idea what she was trying to say anymore. The whole thing was self-contradictory. I would like to add that Macardle's novel is a lot more than just a ghost story. She was an ardent Republican feminist who was appalled at the codification of the domestic role of women in the 1937 Irish Constitution. Therefore, it is no surprise that the main character Pamela breaks from these stereotypes. But most of all, the ghost story itself cleverly is about how a family that has literally deified a dead woman, who in life was idealized as a virtuous example of domestic martyrdom to a toxic marriage. I can't say more without spoilers, but I assure you Macardle's criticism is excellently expressed in the theme of this entertaining story without being preachy at all. Intro – Let your readers know that you are part of the Uninvited Blog Tour. Use this blurb or feel free to edit in your own style: Ebert, Roger (January 28, 2009). "An angel-faced teenage girl in a nightmare of horror". Chicago Sun-Times.Denial, It's Not Just A River In Egypt: Ok, so Davy's special, smart, beautiful, innately magnetic. That's annoying, yes, but that's not enough to make me hate her. What makes me dislike her is her insistence on emphasizing that she is different. The rules do not apply to her.