The Uninvited

So, while i was reading this so many people kept asking me "Is that like the movie????" Well, no, it's not, even though I haven't seen the movie, it's not. The Uninvited was a book that I expected to be much more suspenseful and more of a thriller then it actually was. Though don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this book was not good and very enjoyable, because it was, it just seemed like it would be more suspenseful. But anyways, this story starts off with Mimi Shapiro who has just run away from her first year at NYU to Nowhere, Canada because she has been having an affair with a teacher, a teacher who is not only married and her fathers age, but ALSO madly in love with her and kind of stalking her as well. So Mimi runs away to her fathers old summer house, only to find someone else already living there...her half-brother she never even knew existed!! This should be joyous, but Jackson "Jay" has been having some problems with someone messing with his recordings, and leaving things for him, like a dead bird (GROSS!!!), so he naturally accuses Mimi of this. Though after they realize who they are to each other, they start trying to work out a system of having this new found family member. They become closer even when their stalker strikes again by filming Mimi with her own camera and then when they get robbed while they are away with Jay's girlfriend Iris at her family's summer home. This is a tale of discovery, both of new family and of their selves, and a quest to find purpose behind so many things. This story is one that makes you just say "Woah!!" It's a good story that all would enjoy, and best of all, it's NOT predictable!! Well, not in the way you think...So overall grade?? B+