Nate and Helen were eager to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. Thanks to an inheritance from Helen's father they were prepared to do just that. After searching the countryside for the perfect house, they decided to build a home themselves and they found the perfect piece of land. The work is harder than they anticipated, but their spirits are still high. They have hopes and dreams. Helen had always dreamt of living in a historic house but settles for pieces of history, like the wooden beam made from a tree that once hung a local legend, Hattie Breckenridge. After placing the beam in their new home, all sorts of strange occurrences start to happen, some of it they can attribute to the neighbor girl, Olive, who at first, will do anything to keep Nate and Helen from completing their home. She is afraid that their home will prevent her from finding the lost treasure tied to her mother's abandonment. Both Nate and Helen become distracted from their goal. Helen starts to see things in the night, the ghost of Hattie Breckenridge and becomes obsessed with what happened to Hattie and her descendants. And Nate starts to chase an impossible quest of tracking down the albino doe. Their obsessions are starting to come between them in a destructive matter. Is their unraveling due to supernatural forces or just plain old humans with sinister motives?
Nate and Helen are kinda living out mine and my husband's dream. Escape the hustle and bustle of our lives, find a plot of land in the country, and build our dream home. However, Helen and Nate can keep the ghost and crazy people. I really liked both Nate and Helen - at first. The longer they spend building their house, the more I struggled with liking them. I thought that Helen had a weird obsession with Hattie and I thought that Nate was a jerk to her about it. I did like the way they both interacted with Ollie, after their initial meeting, they were both kind and supportive of Ollie. I wasn't all that surprised by the big reveal, but that is okay, I was more interested in the ghost story than I was the mystery. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS -
Bottom Line - Usually I am a big chicken shit when it comes to ghost stories, but for some reason, I was in a mood. If you ever find yourself in the mood for a good ghost story, you can't go wrong with Jennifer McMahon.
Details:
- The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
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- Pages: 368
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
- Publication Date: 4/30/2019
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