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  • Written by: J.A. Baker
  • Narrated by: Sophie Wardlow
  • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The Uninvited

Written by: J.A. Baker
Narrated by: Sophie Wardlow
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A brooding and suspenseful thriller that will appeal to fans of Rachel Abbott, Mark Edwards and Shalini Boland.

Faye and her husband, Hugh, have had a traumatic year. Wanting to start again, the couple decides to buy a large run-down property in North Yorkshire, hoping to leave the past behind them.

However, the tranquillity is soon ruined when Faye begins to awake, every night, to the sound of somebody creeping around the bedroom. She tries to explain it to Hugh, frightened for the safety of their children, Aiden and Poppy, but Hugh dismisses her claims, thinking she is heading for another breakdown.

But when Faye discovers some diaries that contain secrets about the family that lived in the house before them, she starts to wonder if the intruder might be closer to home than she first thought.
©2018 J.A. Baker (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
Suspense Psychological
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Good Story. Most Irritating Protagonist Ever.

J.A.Baker writes suspense very, very well. She builds tension with drip-drip-drip revelations and legitimately creepy scene-by-scene imagery. A struggling family moving into a ramshackle mansion with a horrific history and creepy nighttime visitors may be far from unique, but Baker does an admirable job giving it her interpretation.
Unfortunately, the mother of the family ('Faye Morgan') is insufferable. I found myself actually hoping that everything this histrionic passive-aggressive harpy wished for would fall apart. Her husband should have taken the kids and left her loooooong before the events of this quasi-haunted-house tale.

Doubtless, genuinely inferior narration from Sophie Wardlow underlines the unfavorable aspects of the audiobook (making the positive harder to appreciate). Her whiny interpretation of Faye, rapid-fire reading rate, and actually cringeworthy mispronunciations render this a difficult listen. If you're dead set on purchasing this title, stick to a text (paper or eBook) version.

Regardless, 'The Uninvited' merits 7 stars out of 10. If you can get it as a 'Plus' selection, it's a great distracting atmospheric book. If they ask for a Credit, however, you could do better.

[Incidentally: some of the Amazon Book Reviews calling for Faye's violent murder are hilarious:
https://www.amazon.com/The-Uninvited-J-A-Baker-audiobook/product-reviews/B07QLN175G?reviewerType=all_reviews]

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It would seem that this narrator was left to edit her own work, which should never have been the case! Note to the producers!


I was very distracted by the narrator's seeming lack of education, and laziness in not checking the pronunciation of so many words! In multiple cases, she didn't even pronounce the entire word "chapter," but rather left it at "Chapt. 12, or Chap. 17!" I can only guess that is because that is how it was written for her, and she is not educated enough to know that, although it may be written that way, one does not read it that way when narrating a book. Then, there was the mispronunciation of words such as cadaver, says, bureau, heirloom, conviviality, plethora, waft, incongruous, molasses, seismic, placate, clandestine, ruminating, vagrants, furore, indecipherable, irreparable, usurped, provocation, and tentatively, Also, she read so quickly that it was often impossible to understand what was said, even when slowed down to .70, as she mashed words together. Another poor example, "all the while feeling Hugh eyes boring into me." It should be "Hugh's eyes." It would seem that this narrator was left to edit her own work, which should never have been the case! Note to the producers!

J A Baker wants us to suspend our disbelief, but she's asking way too much!!! Even if she didn't call the cops to protect her children, or use nanny cams, when the protagonist got physical evidence, she cleaned it up without showing it to her husband or police (DNA)! I guess there wouldn't have been a story if they'd called the cops or used a nanny cam.

I checked and don't find the narrator doing any other work on Audible books. I liked the twist in the end of this story. So, I'm going to chance another J A Baker novel.

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