Uninvited by sophie jordan free epub download

He was just their glorified babysitter and he did nothing but read magazines and eat junk food, when he was not harassing young girls, that is. He could do absolutely nothing, so why denigrate one of the few speaking females in the novel this way? Of course, the only other girl in the novel is an antagonist in the latter part of the novel. That's all. Aside from the typical beautiful, good girl that's clueless about the real world and needs to be protected by the mysterious, misunderstood, beautiful bad boy, we have the always original "let's pair up for a group project".

And at least Twilight had the decency to make them Biology lab partners and Nevermore had them work on works of literature, here they only have to make What high school gives that assignment? What type of specialized program for dangerous kids does that? That has to be the laziest writing example I've seen of that plot devise to get the two protagonists talking and getting to know each other.

It was almost offensive how stupid it was. And then, of course, the main guy points out a quirk no one that has known her for years had ever pointed out to her, in spite of the fact that he has only seen her about 3 times, and then tops it with "Maybe none of the were really paying attention.

They are all poorly developed, often stereotyped, and mostly just there for the convenience of the protagonist. When the second half of the novel rolls around, and Davy is about to be shipped off to a training camp, another big example of lazy writing unashamedly presented itself.

This woman comes and tells Davy that, out of thousands, only something kids were chosen for this camp and that she was extremely lucky to get a spot at all. But then Davy decides she doesn't want to go anywhere without Sean, the love interest, and she tells the woman. Instead of telling Davy more about how exclusive this camp is and how all these kids were specifically chosen because they were special, she says "okay".

Yeah, that's right, the woman that was just talking about this supposedly extremely limited, super exclusive camp, said "well, if he impressed you, he has to be special, I'll check him out" because, conveniently, they had one vacant spot and, instead of picking another kid from the super special list, she just decided to randomly give it to the recommendation of a random chick.

All so that she could get Sean in the second part of the novel. Wasn't there any other way to get him there? One that wasn't so completely and unrealistically idiotic?

The worst thing about this novel is that it is not completely horrible, it's just so frustratingly mediocre it's hard not to hate it.

Jordan has a nice prose, but she insists on wasting her talent of formulaic works that, instead of delivering their promises of great concepts, stay in the cliched and overdone areas of melodramatic teen romance, incompetent protagonists that need constant saving, and blatant sexism.

If I had read this book years ago, when I was younger and not fed up with this YA recycled mediocrity, this book would've probably been a 2 or a 3 star rating for me, but at this point, novels like this are just exasperating and even kind of offensive. Jordan can do better than this, but I'm not sticking around to see if she ever does.

View all 14 comments. May 05, Valeria Andrea marked it as to-read. That would be awesome. View 2 comments. Dec 09, Trina Between Chapters rated it liked it Shelves: audiobooks , sci-fi , dystopian , young-adult , futuristic , , However, I read my old review and wow, past Trina had some of the exact same thoughts that I had while re-reading this.

I kind of wish some of our US government officials would read this because it's a good lesson in how discrimination affects people. I do not mean to diminish that fact.

I'm speaking as a comparison of my awareness in vs , as well as the political climate in the US that has highlighted them for me. The topic feels cutting edge and thought provoking. I felt that a possible future in which scientists have discovered a gene that causes violent tendencies was very realistic.

A large focus of the novel is how these people who are marked as carriers are discriminated against by the rest of society and it felt to me like that discrimination in and of itself seems to be what actually causes them to act on their tempers. It's a great study of self-fulfilling prophecy. Ironically, reading this book made me feel very angry at the situation and I was usually hoping the main characters would just haul off and start punching people in the face!

It's sort of terrifying, thinking about if you were in Davy's situation. It leaves you thinking about the world and about yourself. I also really enjoyed that in this novel we are seeing sort of the beginnings of a dystopian government emerge.

There is an agency in charge of handling the gene testing and dealing with the carriers. Throughout the book we see this agency gain more and more power within the existing US government, which other than this agency seems much the same as it currently is in This book is set in I know this is marked as dystopia, but I don't see it as that. In most dyspotians a corrupt government is already in place and being rebelled against. I'm sure there will be some rebelling in the sequel, but I have to say it was refreshing to see more of a pre-dystopia setting.

I have actually been looking for this, to see how things started. I loved it! These things above, I would rate a 5 star experience. The reason I gave it 4 stars were personal quirks 4 stars is still very good to me though , and they are probably spoilery, so I'm going to hide the next part.

He would be no where around and then all of a sudden Davy's attacker would be pulled away from her and she'd realize he'd swooped in. Did he have a radar?

Not only did I think this was a little too easy, but I wanted to see Davy win her own fights, and also it gave me a mental image of Sean being not much more than a gorilla, pounding someone's face in and beating his chest in triumph.

For personal reasons, this made Sean unattractive to me as a love interest. I understand that coming to her defense and being protective was endearing, and yes the topic of this book was violence and anger, and being put in situations that would make you act out.

But having dated some men who probably would be carriers of the HTS gene in this universe, it's just a personal turn off to see a love interest act in that way. So it failed to have the romantic swoon for me. Again, that's just personal. Jul 06, Melanie rated it really liked it Shelves: e-arc , not-bad-at-all , books-i-own , swoony-guys , death , romance , young-adult , action , dystopian-utopian , kick-ass-character.

And like any disease, sometimes the only way to battle it is with poison. Uninvited is a refreshingly fun See more reviews at YA Midnight Reads Carriers are like a cancer to this once great nation. Uninvited is a refreshingly fun dystopian that made it difficult for me to put down; within just hours I managed to fly through this.

Davy had the life everyone else at school wanted. She is a music prodigy, able to play piano, guitar, flute etc. And my ability to sing? Not only is Davy exceedingly brilliant with her musical abilities, but also she had a bright future. She was going to go to Julliard; she was going to get married to her boyfriend that she loves so dearly, all the girls were envious. But when she gets home one day, something is off.

Her parents have worry draped on their shoulders. Soon, Davy discovers that her DNA shot that she did earlier that year had come back positive. And this kill gene, turns her once perfect life upside down. Nevertheless, I ended up loving her personality. When Davy is told that she has the kill gene, she is in complete denial. But no one listens to her, her best friend strands her, and other girls are no longer jealous of her. To be frank, I was sympathetic towards Davy. And I hated everyone else.

Especially the company that decided to be searching for people who could be holders of this disease. Sophie Jordan certainly does well at creating a character that we can understand, fend and feel for. I wanted her to grow tougher in this book. Hopefully I will see some of that in the sequel. Uninvited really makes you wonder what our world would be like if the kill gene existed.

Personally, I think Sophie Jordan did a spectacular at painting the scenario of a realistic world with people living with the kill gene. There would be real fear. Prejudice among citizens. I like how Jordan also adds short excerpts of interrogations, interviews, letters, information booklets and transcripts between each chapter to give us readers a better grasp on the world and additional world building with some facts about HTS.

A fun and engaging read. I recommend. View all 8 comments. Aug 25, Angela rated it did not like it Shelves: 1-star-reads , floating-or-falling. This book wasn't bad it was just okay. The second half of the book is definitely better and stronger than the first half. This book is an easy and a fast read. But sadly a bit predictable. I knew what was coming WAY before it would happen. I also felt a lack of "bonding" with any of the characters. I just really got tired of hearing Davy complain about how shes nothing now and has nothing Aug 30, Montzalee Wittmann rated it it was amazing.

Uninvited by Sophie Jordan is a book that is a good possibility of what it would be like if we had a way to check for the "kill gene". Sure the debate between nature and nurture is going now but it would be out the window if we had the gene finder and people would be forced to be tested for it.

This shows what happens to a few of these people and even if they weren't disposed to kill, the way they are treated some just might turn to killing for self defense. Great social commentary book. Oct 31, Octavia rated it it was amazing Shelves: or-earlier-release , books-i-own , covergasm , best-ofto I finished this book in 3 hours. I wanted to savor it. I swear I did! But this book, this story! It was meant to be devoured!

Review to come soon! I think If you follow me on twi I finished this book in 3 hours. Seeing how truly fragile our "humanity" is kind of rubbed me raw. Everything she had, her friends, her family, her very future was taken away from her because some crackpot in a white jacket said she has a gene HTS that increases the likelihood of her becoming a killer. It was this grouping, this completely ridiculous conclusion that made me tear up by how weak fear can make a country and how one person can gain so much power from that fear.

It was just too real, too believable not the kill gene that was banana's! Uninvited has the characters, the plot, the pace and the balls to be one of my favorite books I've read in It was gritty in places but tried to make light of the bleak world contained within the pages.

The writing was captivating but appropriate for the characters ages, and above all it ended in a way that satisfied me but still made me yearn for the next in the series.

Now go pre-order it! View 1 comment. Otherwise it would have been 1 star. Why is it that I so often start out reading a new book all enthusiastic and optimistic and interested, but then get utterly disappointed?

I honestly thought I was liking this book, I did, but after the initial world building was done and the characters were introduced, it all started to fal "A world so afraid of carriers, it makes killers out of the innocent. I honestly thought I was liking this book, I did, but after the initial world building was done and the characters were introduced, it all started to fall apart. I mean, could this world get any more ridiculous? And this is supposed to be our modern world several years into the future.

Year , to be precise. This book completely lacks science. It would have made more sense if the author made it some kind of a contagious disease and not a gene factor. Because with every new chapter I read, there were reports of more, and more and MORE carriers, like it was a pandemic.

I wonder if by the end of the second book they will discover that half of the world population have this gene. Not that I'm going to read it. And what does the stupid government do to the carriers?

They are excluded from every part of normal human life. They can't go to schools and colleges, can't have good jobs. Even after some minor infringement they get collar-like tattoos. Society ostracizes them, friends abandon them, they are being treated like plaque. And on top of that all, by the middle of the book, all carriers are being herded to Concentration Detention Camps.

Based solely on one gene test! Well, as far as I know, having a particular gene doesn't guarantee that things are going to happen in a certain way. It's more like there is a greater probability and risk, but it is not set in stone. So why, tell me, why, do you decide to treat this risky group with violence that just makes them want to snap and go for revenge that much sooner? And how can they not take into account that the majority of these people are completely harmless, sometimes even more so than regular people.

And boy, isn't that the truth! Our MC Davy Hamilton is just this kind of person. She is not prone to violence at all, but all her friends abandoned her the second they learned about the results of her test.

Hell, her boyfriend, who professed his love the other day dumped her, in a nasty way too! Even her own parents were behaving ridiculously. The only person who treated her as if nothing had happened was her older brother Mitchell. Davy annoyed me a lot. I didn't have a problem with her being a sheltered and pampered princess in the beginning of the book.

However, what I had a problem with was her judgmental attitude. She labelled all carriers as monsters without regard to their personalities. Except herself, of course.

Because she was a super special snowflake who was different from other people. Yes, she made an exception for a couple of new people, but that's it. Everyone else was evil be default.

She even went as far as judging if a person was a killer based on their looks alone! Multiple times! This girl drove me to distraction.

It's arrogant thinking, but all I can cling too. All in all, very disappointing. I wish authors of dystopias would pay more attention to world building. View all 15 comments. Oct 09, Jay G rated it liked it. Want to see more bookish things from me? Davey Hamilton has the perfect life, so when she discovers she is a carrier for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome HTS , she is more than surprised.

Having HTS means that she will one day kill someone simply because of her genetic predisposition. Her life is completely flipped upside down when her friends and boyfriend desert her and she is uninvited from her fancy private school. That's when Want to see more bookish things from me? That's when she meets Sean, a boy who also has HTS and she needs to decide whether to trust him or not.

The premise behind the book was so intriguing to me but I felt that it just didn't live up to my expectations. I found it to be very slow at times and I was bored. I was also a bit disappointed with the ending, it seemed to happen way too quickly in my opinion and felt a bit rushed. I realize that it is meant to have a sequel but I was still wanting more in this book. The relationship between Sean and Davey was a huge no for me, I just didn't feel like they had any chemistry other than the fact that they were both carriers.

I did enjoy the parallels between those with HTS and pretty much any minority group in society today. It was absolutely disgusting the way they were treated based off of something they were unable to control, like their genetics.

It was a real eyeopener to be honest. Overall, it was average in my opinion Honestly had a bit of a rough time reading this. Not because it was a bad book, but because it was rather dark. I've read dark and violent books before, but this particular book reminded me all too well of all the shit through which our world is suffering.

It left a bad taste in my mouth. I had goosebumps and the works. For example, all the carriers were rounded up 2. For example, all the carriers were rounded up, after four or five of them-- a serious minority --went and did a mass shooting.

You know what sucks? This book was only published three-ish years ago. In this book, that mass shooting was supposedly the biggest in history. I don't remember the exact number, but you know what else sucks?? The fact that we have had the biggest mass shooting in history, and it was bigger than a fictional one.

I hate the fact that this is the world we live in and that it is not fictional. I hate the fact that we are called "humans" because we supposedly display characteristics of "humanity", when, in reality, the number of people who show true humanity really isn't that significant.

Wow, this is getting really depressing All that aside, the book was mediocre. I didn't care for any of the characters. Davy didn't strike me as anything special. She's pretty flat for the most part.

She is a musical prodigy who was supposed to go to Julliard before it was found that she's a carrier. I know one of the biggest problems in this book was that carriers of the HTS homicidal tendencies syndrome gene wouldn't be able to get jobs because they were branded dangerous. People can hire them to play gigs, but they could also, say, go to New York City and play on the streets every day. Davy, if you are the prodigy you constantly say you are, then you could probably make a decent amount of money doing that.

Maybe even touring different big cities, with security if necessary. I am aware that at this point in time it is not possible Guess what? Davy is another gorgeous girl who had a gorgeous boyfriend who looks at her features and says things like ew my eyes are to big and far apart!

I'm over it. We don't know Gill very well even though he's one of the more important characters. Because the focus was put on Sean.

Does anyone else find it strange that a boy can use his finger to lift a girl's chin to stress a point or something? First of all, what the heck? You gave you permission to touch her? Second of all, we never see girls do this.

Because it's weird! Who does that on a whim?? When he put his hands on her shoulder, Davy says something along the lines of : "I don't pull back because I was raised to be polite. Don't worry about hurting the poor baby's feelings! Also, when Davy does try to stop him, he doesn't stop. But when big buff burly Sean comes into the picture, he stops! It's sad that the world works this way! Honestly this book made me angry so many times. I don't know if I care enough to read the second one.

Right now, I don't care. Will I care in the future? To be honest, this isn't the first time I tried to read Uninvited. I started reading it a while ago, then got bored and put it down. For the most part, my initial instinct was correct. So for now, I'm relying on that initial instinct and my instinct now and deciding that I probably won't be reading the next one.

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Will Aerin and Olivia be able to save the world or will Aerin become an unwitting instrument in the alien agenda before she can tell Olivia how she truly feels?

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Instead of adventure and summer earnings, Nick and Nora must survive for the next seven days. The remaining uninfected guests must quickly learn to set aside their differences and fight the deadly threat.

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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.

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