Review: Didn't see it coming, twice!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
Looks can be deceiving as is the cover  for Uninvited Guest.It was supposed to be a celebration. Good times for all. A wedding and new beginnings.Harlan is crashing the party, kind of. Jose's mother insisted he go to the wedding and when he asks Harlan to go, he figures why not. There'll be free food and booze and maybe some babes to dance with.It seems like it takes forever to get there. The wedding is being held in a lodge surrounded by dense woods.Finally, they arrive. The wedding goes off without a hitch. Now it's time to eat, drink, and be merry. Except it's taking forever to get to the dancing.Finally the music starts and the happy couple do the traditional bride and groom shuffle. Everyone is oohing and aahing, taking copious pictures and video.Harlan, standing at the back of the gathering, happens to glance out one of the windows. Everyone else is watching the happy couple, but something made him look.Something outside, maybe a shadow, slid along the windowsill.  No, not a shadow, it had bulk. It seemed to take a long time to pass.The windows are spaced about 5 to 6 feet apart. In the time it took to glance to the next window, it was sliding past that one too!Everyone is still watching the couple. Harlan feels frozen in time. A look at the doors shows they're still standing wide open.An overwhelming feeling of dread passes over him. Something is coming. It's almost to the doors.The author wrote this story from Harlan's point of view. It worked really good. I experienced everything with Harlan, felt his confusion, dread, and disbelief. And then his terror.Have you ever had that feeling like something really bad is going to happen? That's how I felt, right along with Harlan.Harlan may have been an uninvited guest, but he's not the only one.This gets a Five from me!I purchased this as a free book from Amazon.