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Yesternight: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Cat Winters (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.

In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.

Seven-year-old Janie O’Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they’re no more than the product of the girl’s vast imagination. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth.

Alice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life.

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This work of historical fiction set in the 1920s centers on Alice Lind, who became a school psychologist to understand her own childhood nightmares and sporadic violent behavior. When Alice is sent to the wild coast of Oregon to help young Janie, a seven-year-old who believes she was once an adult woman who drowned, Alice's own past haunts her, and she becomes convinced that reincarnation is real. There are too many coincidences for her to accept that Janie is just a genius mathematician. A brief dalliance with Janie's divorced father complicates matters—is Alice really a "loose" woman with no morals, like her ex-boyfriends say? Or is she a professional woman ahead of her time? Teens who have read Winters's Morris Award finalist In the Shadow of Blackbirds will find the hints of the paranormal in this novel familiar. At times, Alice seems more like a teenager in modern times than an adult woman in the 1920s, but her investigation into the two incidents of possible reincarnation will fascinate readers. The Oregon, Nebraska, and Kansas rural settings are enthralling, as are the problems Alice encounters as a psychologist in a male-dominated field. VERDICT Perfect for teens wanting mystery, historical fiction, and a touch of the unexplainable.—Sarah Hill, Lake Land College, Mattoon IL

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A haunting, unforgettable read.

-- "Simone St. James, author of Lost among the Living"

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AFY976I
Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks (October 4, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2280 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 ‏ : ‎ 378 pages

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- #4,444 in Occult Horror

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Cat Winters is an award-winning, critically acclaimed author of teen and adult fiction that blends history with the supernatural. Her YA works include IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS, THE CURE FOR DREAMING, THE STEEP AND THORNY WAY, ODD & TRUE, and a forthcoming novel about Edgar Allan Poe's teen years, THE RAVEN'S TALE (April 2019). Her adult novels are THE UNINVITED and YESTERNIGHT. She has been named a Morris Award finalist, a Bram Stoker Award nominee, a Jefferson Cup Award winner, and an Oregon Spirit Book Award winner, and her YA novels have appeared on numerous state and "best of" lists.

Winters lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit her online at www.catwinters.com.

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Jean Cummings

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Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017

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This writer drew me in immediately. I was able to relate pretty well to her character Alice/Nell. Most of the book was comfortable to be in (with the exception of the cold and dampness). The last few chapters left me nervous and unsettled! Good writing!

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Kristin A

Just what I was looking for

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2017

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Easy to read. Delighfully creepy and mysterious. Author pulls you in with her descriptions. The ending came quite quickly and was a bit unbelievable, which is why I gave it 4 stars. But I really enjoyed it overall.

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S. Caughie

Start With a Different One

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016

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Warning: spoilers will abound! Stop reading if you haven't read this book yet.

So, with that out of the way: I wasn't going to review this book, preferring to count it as a blip in the author's otherwise outstanding set of novels, but then I couldn't stop thinking about it. And not in a good way. I know that many others have said the same thing, but while this book had the lovely writing and atmosphere of Cat Winters' other books (I've read them all but the Hamlet one, which I just downloaded) it really fell flat on the plot and characterizations, which have been so strong in her other books.

The premise was good, and the book began okay, though frankly, from the very beginning it was a bit hackneyed. Heroine meets potential love interest in torrential storm which forces them under the same roof...okay, many good Gothics start out that way. But this isn't a conventional Gothic - the author's interest in early 20th c. feminism is still at work here in 1920s coastal Oregon with a female psychologist, Alice, coming to town to test the school-children's IQs. The love interest is a frankly boring blond rake of a speakeasy owner, Michael, who has divorced his wife, Rebecca, and is partially estranged from his 7 year old daughter, Janie. We quickly - and rather obviously - learn that he has been a key figure in arranging for a psychologist to come to the town and evaluate Janie, who has some odd tendencies and abilities.

The book then moves into an interesting section which details Janie's insistence on having led a past life as a woman named Violet Sunday who died at age 19. Alice plays detective and uncovers facts that suggest Janie is telling the truth. The whole gang goes to Kansas to investigate, and to make a long story short, realize that Janie's claims are true. Closure for Janie and maybe her parents. Except then mom makes a big scene and says she's taking Janie away from dad forever. Hello? Where did this come from?

And from there, we go into a death-spin. First figuratively, then literally. Spoilers, remember! Alice decides that that checkered past and a couple of odd references to the Yesternight Hotel in Nebraska mean that she has to go there RIGHT NOW, despite it being almost Christmas and the blizzard-ridden depths of the midwest, because now she thinks she, too is reincarnated. For some reason (maybe because his ex has just destroyed his life) Michael decides to go with her and with either a very hackneyed plot-shove or very little warning, depending how you look at it, the two are suddenly madly in love and talking about contraception. (No, I am not kidding.)

Still with me? Okay, they arrive in bum**** Nebraska and somehow manage to get to the haunted hotel through a blizzard via the hotelier. On the way there it sounds like there will be other guests, but when they get there, there aren't any. The bizarre hotel owners seem more than eager to tell them horror stories about the hotel, which culminates in Alice deciding she's a reincarnated murderer, and her victims must be buried in the vegetable garden because she hates vegetables. (No I am not kidding.)

Only then she gets a telegram from her sister that was sent to the hotel a while back (still not sure how all of that worked out, it was probably explained in the minutiae I missed trying to follow this plot) telling her that she, said sister, told Alice the stories of the murder lady as a small child and Alice somehow decided via these stories that it would be a good idea to beat a lot of neighborhood children on the head with a tree branch. (I swear I am not making this up!)

Warning: explicit spoilers ahead! So then Alice decides, as a result of all of this, that it would be a great idea to sleep with Michael, who, though he has sworn up and down on three (I think?) occasions to pull out in time, doesn't. Which leads to a brutal fight because Alice fears pregnancy, which leads to...well, TBH, by that point, I really didn't care. So I won't document any more, because if you still want to read this book, you're going to. And if not, please, please try this woman's other books because they are all fabulous!

Anyway here's my point, lest this seem like an endless cut-down. I suspect that it isn't the author's fault that the book is a bit of a hot mess. Her other books are great. More to the point, I have worked in the industry in two countries, on all sides of the table, for about 20 years. This is Cat Winters' dud book. It's the book she wrote too fast, and without enough editing, because she'd done well enough that her publisher just wanted another book ASAP. So in a weird way, it's an accolade. You can read it for that, or you can skip it - but if this is your first time round with this author, please give her another chance!

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Creepy and Very Well-Written

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2016

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Well written, creepy, and thought provoking. A book that will stay will you for a while.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017

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Told in 3 parts,. Pulls at you emotionally, but predictable at times. Still the characters are well developed and the book worth reading.

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Good Combination of Historical Fiction and a little Paranormal

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2023

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I enjoyed the Historical Fiction with a mix of Paranormal. I would have given 4 Stars if not for the last few chapters dragging ooonnnn! Seemed like the author couldn't wrap up the story. Ending could have been so much better.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2016

First – isn’t that cover just gorgeous? It’s one of those covers that would stop your forward progress in a book store and make you pick up the book to read the synopsis. I will note it has absolutely nothing to do with the book other than it rains a lot in the locale but there is no particular mention of an umbrella. Or a beautiful burgundy dress. But who cares when it’s so pretty?

Alice Lind is a psychologist who specializes in children with difficulties so she travels from school to school in the Pacific Northwest. As the book opens it’s 1925 and she has been sent to a very small town on the coast of Oregon. There she is to ostensibly test the children to see if their needs are being met but in reality she is there to meet one girl named Janie who has been telling stories of about someone named Violet since she was 2 years old. She also happens to be a math prodigy. There are no plausible explanations for Janie’s behaviours so her father is anxious for answers. Her mother is less inclined to want help.

Janie’s parents are divorced and differ widely on how Janie should be handled. Her mother just wants to ignore the problem and her father, Michael wants to pursue whatever clues they have to a conclusion. Miss Lind does not believe in the reincarnation theory being put forward but when everything she has been taught fails to bring an answer she starts an investigation that leads her to the possibility of proving its existence.

Miss Lind has her own reasons for questioning reincarnation as she gets deeper into Janie’s life for she has some unexplained events from her own childhood. She wonders if she and Janie are somehow connected. As she finds the answers that Janie’s family seeks will it lead to her own?

This book was so much more than I was expecting. It was a page turner that I really didn’t want to put down and in fact, I really didn’t. I read it on one rainy afternoon. The mood set by Ms. Winters was pretty much mirrored in my real world as the rain and wind battered the windows of the yurt. I suspect it helped make the reading experience all the more real as I heard the rain as I read about the weather. The author really knows how to set a gothic mood – that mildly creepy undertone bubbling through in unexpected places. I was disappointed in that with all of the focus on Janie and her tale that when the denouement finally came and most of the questions were answered Janie pretty much gave way to Alice and her search. But there were still things I wanted to know about Janie!

The section on Alice – and I can’t say much without giving things away – was the weakest part of the book. Fortunately it was not a large part of the tale. I understand the need for part of it as it set up the totally “what the heck” ending that made me go back and read the last couple of pages again. Alice Lind is truly a complex character – a woman in a man’s world with a woman’s needs yet not seeking a husband. This was not accepted at this time in history. I found her fascinating, yet challenging. This is certainly a book you don’t want to read before going to bed.

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