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The Taken by Sarah Pinborough
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The Taken (original 2007; edition 2007)

by Sarah Pinborough (Author)

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The ghost of a girl who died thirty years ago has come back to get revenge on the people who let her die, and she's bringing friends.
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Title:The Taken
Authors:Sarah Pinborough (Author)
Info:Dorchester Publishing Company (2007), Edition: First Edition, 323 pages
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The Taken by Sarah Pinborough (2007)

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Mass market novel in the SK/McCammon mold that manages to rise above the mediocre by taking some chances with the usual horror plot tropes. Not Shakespeare by any means but buoyed up by above average prose and well drawn characters. A nice entertaining read with a bittersweet finish. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
In a small village in Somerset, England, thirty years ago, ten-year-old Melanie Parr met a horrible fate during a storm. She was a very bad, evil child. Now she is back and she wants revenge on those she holds responsible...

At first, I was enjoying this book, it was creepy with good atmosphere. The young girl Melanie was horrible. But I really disliked how things turned out at the end.

A disappointing read. ( )
  SandraLynne | Jan 4, 2022 |
Pinborough's language deftly unsettles, disturbs, and evokes fear. She us a master at making your skin prickle in a few short paragraphs. ( )
  ktoonen | Apr 18, 2013 |
This book was okay, but not as good as I had hoped it would be. It wasn't really bad, but I just had trouble with staying interested in it. ( )
  ladybug74 | Apr 8, 2009 |
In a small English farming village, Alex watches and a storm rages and her life falls apart around her. Inside the unrelenting storm, strange children are appearing and mysterious deaths are occurring. Slowly Alex unwinds the mystery of the last time such a storm came to town, 30 years ago.

This is a really good "ghost" story. It is creepy and compelling. I really liked many of the characters, flawed as they were. This is a great winter's read. Curl up with something warm to drink and enjoy. ( )
  TheLibraryhag | Jan 28, 2009 |
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We may be dead and we may be gone, But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side Until the day you die. -- The Smiths
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Pinborough delivers genuine chills in this effective tale of ghostly revenge. Thirty years ago, in the rural town of Watterrow, England, a beautiful, curly-haired 10-year-old named Melanie Parr suffered a fatal accident. Having used her angelic looks to hide a cruel, sociopathic personality, the girl delighted in tormenting her playmates, whose mothers decided to do something about it. Unfortunately for them, that "something" proved deadly. Even more unfortunate, Melanie's come back for revenge, three decades later, thanks to "The Catcher Man," a benign entity that holds children in a state between life and death.
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