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    The Unwanted
    The Unwanted
    The Unwanted
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Unwanted

    Written by John Saul

    Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her suddenly in the dead of night are merely the beginning. Very soon, Cassie Winslow will come to know the terrifying powers that are her gift. And in the village of False Harbor, nothing will ever be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2017
    ISBN9781536668155
    The Unwanted
    Author

    John Saul

    John Saul’s first novel Suffer the Children became an instant bestseller, as have many of the thirty-three novels of dark suspense he has published since. Amidst this busy writing schedule, he divides his time between Seattle, Washington and Hawaii.

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    • 3/5
      It was not bad. It wasn’t good either. Girl looses mother, moves in with her dad and his new family, doesn’t fit in, starts having strange dreams, evil descends onto the small coastal town. If it was set in Maine, I would have thought Stephen King! But no, not that good. The ending was really lame and for the really long build-up too short. I finished the last page and thought, “What? That was it??” If you enjoy watching B-list horror-movies, this is for you…
    • 3/5
      This book irritated me constantly through always blaming one person for everything, bullying and gossiping of a weak and ridiculous town or group of people, judgement upon first meeting someone, inability to act on behalf of others when they cant, tolerating domestic violence and child abuse and lack of intervention or needed action by those supposedly in charge or responsible for safety of others. If this were a real town everyone would be dead, fired or in state of anarchy.

      Tale of the 2 Witches is basically what this book boiled down to. Just so happens one of them is also a psychopath or a sociopath. I'd have to delve deeper into each mental illnesses characteristics or whatever and it's not that important.

      Cassie lives in Calif with her neglectful possibly abusive mother who dies in an accident on the freeway. Cassie's only other family is her estranged father Keith, who she'd last seen when she was 11. He had moved out to the East Coast and had a new family, a wife and 8 year old daughter. Cassie, an almost 16 year old Junior in high school had always felt alone. So when she went to live with the father and the new family she had little to no expectations as she'd just be alone in a new place.

      When stepmom Rose Marie first meets Cassie, she immediately has a sense of foreboding, troubling vibes and believes Cassie isn't what she tries to lead you to believe. Cassie's new neighbors include fellow teen Eric, the town trunk wife/kid beater as Dad and a mom who just takes it. On the first day of school, Eric's girl, a jealous popular girl, begins talking trash about Cassie, the principal thinks of Cassie the way step mom did and worst of all the town crazy woman known as a witch pays Cassie to much attention. Cassie was doomed from the beginning.

      After a chance meeting with crazy town Witch, Cassie learns they both share some supernatural abilities. For the first time ever Cassie feels like she is cared for and feels a sense of belonging. Unfortunately it was short lived but it left its mark on Cassie. As time drags on, Cassie is still "alone", noone likes her, her step mom isn't feeling it, dad is in denial and she's getting hot/cold from Eric. When weird accidents and some deadly situations begin to happen around town the scared town folk want someone to blame. They determine since the original crazy town witch paid close attention to Cassie then it's perfectly logical that Cassie too is either crazy, a witch or both.

      Regardless of whether true innocence or complete guilt exists in these weird accidents and deadly situations, Cassie becomes the town's scapegoat through no intentional actions of her own doing or making. The town had their culprit in Cassie, case closed! Little does the town know Cassie may be a victim along with them, all due to actions of one of their own. The town has been stupidly blind to the many years the truly guilty had been interacting with the town witch. They had also turned a blind eye to the degrading words, intolerable violence and constant state of stress and fear the guilty had been forced to endure through no personal fault.

      The town ignored the signs, didnt want to get involved and even feared retaliation should they speak up. Due to noone trying to intervene and due to others inability to take action the guilty had a silent rage growing day by day. The one taught coping mechanism on how to put that rage aside or how to bury it layer upon layer was slowly not working anymore and there was no more room to bury it without it toppling or spewing over.

      Cassie didn't see the truth of everything until the rage of the guilty, that had spewed bit by bit, ultimately exploded and by then actions were to far gone. When she was found she had already willingly and wantingly faded into herself, had accepted her fate on her own terms and had known she had been the weaker opponent through no fault of her own. Cassie isn't one to give up easily though. I'd dare say Cassie may have one more move in the end that no one will see coming. No one!
    • 3/5
      It was OK up until the end. The ending was such a letdown. Anti-climactic. Such a disappointment.
    • 5/5
      I love how John Saul writes, the whole time you really think one way until maybe toward the end very good love this author.
    • 4/5
      I read this decades ago when I first discovered John Saul. At the time I read so many of his books that they seemed to run together. I remember liking it enough to read all his work.
    • 4/5
      I read this decades ago when I first discovered John Saul. At the time I read so many of his books that they seemed to run together. I remember liking it enough to read all his work.
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure if it is because this is a slightly older book or what but this novel grabbed me more than other more recent ones by Saul. In fact, the second half grabbed me and seemed to be quickly tying together many things that I didn't even think would be connected but ended up being so. It was definitely a page-turner! Saul still keeps with his theme of children and revenge but there is a little bit more of a bite in the story. The story contains some grit that makes it that much more enjoyable. My only complaint is that I know I read the last page somewhere else. Not sure if it was another novel by Saul, by someone else or if I just read the book twice by mistake, but it was definitely familiar.
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite John Saul, but not a bad book either. I thought the story of Cassie and Eric was interesting. I wasn't too happy with the ending, but most of John Saul's books have an unhappy ending. I felt sorry for Cassie and the way she was ostracized by the town, and wished she could have had a happier life.
    • 4/5
      Another unbelievably great work of horror by John Saul.
    • 4/5
      This was a typical Saul book with a couple of teens who were different and picked on by others. I have noticed this as a theme in all or most of his books that I have read. Either I am just not in the mood for this type of book or I have outgrown Saul's books because I just wasn't as interested in this one as I would have been at one time. It was good, but not great.