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The Unwanted Kindle Edition

by Jean Nicole Rivers (Author), Joyous Seeman (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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In the remote, eastern European town of Borslav there is St. Sebastian orphanage, a place where people discard their unwanted children. For the American, Blaire Baker, it’s the perfect place to volunteer her services. Paired with a cheerful volunteer nurse, Blaire is enthusiastic about the possibilities, but is quickly discouraged when she encounters the nefarious nature of the staff and the deplorable conditions of the facility and the children. Upon arrival, one of the children informs Blaire, “There’s something in the basement.” It isn’t long before strange things begin happening, including Blaire’s flashbacks of the accident that killed her parents. The children soon suffer injuries that Blaire, first, fears may be the deeds of the callous workers but she soon thinks the abuse may originate from a source that is less than human, something unwanted. The unwanted is coming but in order for Blaire to fight it, she must dig into St. Sebastian and herself in search of truth. Blaire wants nothing more than to help the children, but when she discovers the tragedy that happened in the basement and learns that the same evil forces are still at work, it will be Blaire who needs help…There’s something in the basement.

All books in the Black Water Tales series stand alone and do not need to be read with other novels in the series.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01CR8CQ36
Publisher ‏ : ‎ JNR Publishing; 1st edition (March 31, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2169 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 261 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,042,900 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #127 in Black & African American Horror Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,611 in Women's Psychological Fiction
- #8,239 in Occult Fiction

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Jean Nicole is a National Black Book Festival award-winner and author of three psychological horror novels, Black Water Tales: To the Moon and Back, Black Water Tales: The Unwanted and Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers. She has also garnered awards for her screenplay, If I Die, from multiple film festivals including the Shivers International Film Festival (Canada).

She is the owner of a novel writing software, Simple Stylus (www.SimplyStylus.com) and she teaches an online beginner writing course titled, Simply Writing: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Developing A Solid Writing Process and FINALLY Writing Their Novel.

She writes because she loves words, she writes because she loves stories, she writes because she has a story to tell.

Stay in touch with me: https://linktr.ee/jeannicole19

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Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2021

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So I just finished book two after coming across
the first one on TikTok. This book was very well written and had great detail. I thought it would be similar to the first one and it was in a sense but at the same time it wasn’t. Great book and I would read it again.

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Zara

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022

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This book was awesome. The world and setting was built beautifully and the plot twist caught me off guard. I blew right through it. Definitely reccomend this thriller.

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Allison

Creepy indeed

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018

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Tis the season for spooky stories: take your pick". My choice for the @penguinukbooks Read The Year Challenge for October was @jeannicole19 Black Water Tales. The Unwanted. It's safe to say Scoobs and I we're thoroughly creeped out. I stayed up into the early morning hours and I haven't really slept since.
This book had the classic creepy scenarios ie the orphanange, creepy af kids, vivid hallucinations, things that go bump in the night etc. The writing was so good too, great story telling. There was a line that I especially loved, "They reached their cadaverous hands up through the soil of her subconscious, dragging themselves out of a mind grave". But the ending though! I didn't see that coming. At. All.
I recommend this book if you're looking for a creepy but not gross read.

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Brianna M. E. Robles

Creepy Must Read

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021

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This is a freaking creepy book. I had to take multiple breaks. So creepy. But if you like creepy you should read it.

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2016

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This is a horror novel suitable for mature young adults and up.

Blaire and Travis are two young Americans on a care aid program to Borslav and will be looking after orphans at St Sebastian's. On arrival they realise that their year abroad will be no picnic - Borslav is a cold and desolate place and the locals don't seem to want them there. When they finally reach the orphanage they are shocked by the condition of the children. Malnourished, lacking education and some children with physical defects is just the start; fresh injuries spring up each day and the children are scared to death. The two set to work in their roles as teacher and nurse, but as the days go by more and more strange things start to happen. Humming and scraping is heard at night and the constant whispering of threats from the basement threaten to implode their sanity. As they dig deeper to find the origin of the supposed curse on the orphanage, they are met with info so shocking that their lives are in danger. Can they save themselves from the cycle being repeated?

This had the promise of a really good horror but I was disappointed by its predictability. I was hoping to be surprised by the ending but it turned out exactly as I thought it would. The editing had me grimacing - from spelling errors in simple words, to spelling towns in different ways in the same chapter, to using verbose outdated adjectives and even having different POVs in the same paragraph with no breaks. To me the bullying, her parents' deaths and the self harm didn't tie in with the whole story enough. It was like being fed a clue and then not following through on it. It was a good effort but the story could not pull off the proper horror aspect.

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yvonne a. obeng

The book was great!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2021

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I read this book and I was scared!!! I did not cheat and go to the end first! I was up until 5am reading and finished. Whewww!! Awesome!!!!

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