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The Invite: A completely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist

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I like that this is more on the adult side, aka he has a daughter and she’s just as much a part of the story as they are. This is still very romance driven; it’s an office romance, he owns the company she’s working under, so there’s some tension there. Stella vai a um casamento na Biblioteca Pública de New York com o seu amigo Fisher, sem ser convidada...

What would you do if your former roommate stiffed you on two months rent, stole your favorite shoes, and left in the middle of the night with no notice? Would you lie and pretend you’re the former roommate and RSVP “yes, plus one” to a swanky wedding happening in one of your most favorite locations in the city? Hudson was a groomsman and quite possibly the most gorgeous man I'd ever laid eyes on. He asked me to dance, and our chemistry was off the charts.I don’t know why, but the publisher/author/editing team decided to give too much away ahead of time. Los dos últimos libros de Vi Keeland me han gustado no tanto como los primeros que leí de ella pero siento que estos tienen algo diferente y no la misma fórmula de POV´s dual past/present que tanto me tenían harta.

I hate them. These falsely dramatic sentence fragments. That try to create tension. By stuttering in this way. Annoyingly. Rubin, Rebecca (August 30, 2022). "Without Any New Major Releases, Will 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Return to No. 1 at Box Office?". Variety . Retrieved September 1, 2022. Daniels, Nia (August 26, 2021). "Exclusive: Horror feature The Bride to shoot in Budapest with Garrett Hedlund". KFTV . Retrieved July 31, 2022. The invites went out weeks ago, and tonight, at a lavish manor house surrounded by friends and family, Kaitlin couldn’t be happier. But as the champagne corks pop, her dream party becomes her worst nightmare… And the promise for a great ghost story is right at our fingertips--the prologue delivered, sure enough--I was very excited to hear more about our "witches" Hattie & Jane.

I thought The Invited was a decent ghost story. It didn’t scare me, but the plot kept my interest throughout the book. When the book got to the halfway point, some of the plot directions were starting to come together and made this a better reading experience for me. So, I would give it some time for things to start getting a bit more suspenseful. Oriah has a long and unusual history with her name. In 1984, at thirty years of age, after the onset of severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, she had a dream where several elderly women- those she calls Grandmothers in the dream- told her to change her given name to Oriah as part of the process of healing. Nervous about doing something others might see as strange, but desperate to be well, she took the name Oriah and has been called this (by everyone but her mother) since that time. Twenty years later, while doing a book tour, on three successive nights, in three different cities, she was told by people at the bookstores she was visiting that Oriah means light of God in Hebrew, and that it is an ancient Jewish custom to change a patient’s name when doing a healing, to invite new and healing energies.

And like with most of this author's books, The Invited has a very real ghost aspect to it. So if you don't like books that delve into the supernatural world, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this to you. I happen to love that about McMahon's novels, and that ended up being what disappointed me the most in this one. While the ghost aspect was there, I think she could have gone SO much further with it and made this book even better than it was. Especially considering the fact that this cover is so dang creepy and perfect for the story. Is this her attempt to rekindle old friendships after suddenly disappearing from their lives when they were teenagers?This is a well-done work of paranormal fiction. I’m not usually a big fan of the paranormal, but it works well here because the story is grounded in history and science since Helen is a history teacher and her husband, Nate, is a science teacher. After Helen receives a large inheritance, they give up their teaching jobs and buy property in the woods of Vermont, even though the realtor tells them the land is alleged to be haunted. Grrrrrrr, but I digress. The thing that really irked me was that part of the story wasn’t even necessary. The rest of the plot is about digging into the creepy history surrounding the family tree that sprouted from this plot of land a long, long time ago. But all of the hinkyness of the past? It came in the form of either the goings on at the property itself or via discovered artifacts. Why couldn’t they just have remodeled an existing structure or had enough money to hire builders so I didn’t get my resting bitch face on every time they talked about framing and roofing and other completely unbelievable things that made me feel like stabbing someone??????

Before long they get wind of local folklore and legends about their property- and Helen is even given the side eye, with locals believing she’s been called there by Hattie, an alleged witch who died nearly a century ago. The place is supposed be haunted by Hattie- but of course, there’s no such thing as ghosts- right? Weaving the characters’ history into the story, which is well done, just takes up a lot of “extra” time. If she had been a mother, if she had had a job, an activist for something, anything really. That would have helped to make her more interesting. As things stand she was a rich wife.I did not find this one scary. There are themes of generational curses, spirits, witches, and ghosts. But a year later they are unexpectedly thrown together, after Hal receives an invitation he cannot resist. An Italian Contessa asks him to assist on a trip of a lifetime -- acting as a reporter on a tremendous yacht, skimming its way along the Italian coast toward Cannes film festival, the most famous artists and movie stars of the day gathered to promote a new film. DISCLOSURE: I listened to the audiobook of The Invited by Jennifer McMahin, narrated by Amanda Carlin and Justine Eyre, published by Random House Audio, via Overdrive. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. An invitation to journey on a yacht along the Italian Riveria to the Cannes Film Festival. What’s not to like? Just like all of us. With their individual strengths, fears, dreams, insecurities, hopes, secrets, on & on…

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