The Unwanted

Name: The Unwanted
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: John Saul
ISBN: 9781423302513

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Abridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/25/2006

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

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.

About John Saul

House of Reckoning is John Saul’s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bren fall in love with the sea. on April 18, 2019

Not a bad book at all. I have read much of Saul's books and I really adore some of his earlier ones. But I liked this. And oh how I felt for Cassie! My tastes changed so I stopped reading alot of horror but I still from time to time pick up a Saul book or reread one of my old Saul favorites. This was......more

Goodreads review by ItzSmashley on February 13, 2024

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, in the earlier stages I was intrigued as saul crafts some likeable characters and an intriguing premise. In the third act the plot gets a little too convoluted in my opinion, with a few too many twists making the story hard to follow. But overall I kept wanting to rea......more

Goodreads review by Marianneboss on June 29, 2014

According to the 4 books I've read from John Saul so far, fathers are either useless and oblivious pushovers or violent and abusive bastards. Lucky for us there are two of them in this book! ...Yippy... Seriously though, I think I've alreay figured out what's been bothering me about his books: all of......more

Goodreads review by Peter on August 17, 2018

Another Saul Classic from the 80s: a young girl comes to live with her dad after her mom has died in an accident. Dad has a new family now and they try everything to integrate Cassie into her new life among them. Do they succeed? Why has Cassie difficulties in finding new friends in False Harbor? Wh......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on April 24, 2012

The Unwanted is not my favorite John Saul novel, but I wanted to get him on this list. His books are classified as horror, though I would say they could also be filed under psychological suspense. His plots involve the supernatural or sometimes bizarre, but at the same time they are also character-d......more