Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2026! I’m so excited to do it again. I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!
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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!
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The Unwanted
Black Water Tales #2
By JeanNicole Rivers
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Genre: Horror / Suspense / Paranormal
MY REVIEW
I find that the setting is very important in horror stories. An orphanage for unwanted abandoned children fits the bill. St Sebastian’s was in deplorable shape and the children were neglected. And what about the staff? Of course they didn’t have the children’s best interests at heart. Blaire, the new nurse, was shocked by what she walked into and not long after her arrival she’s warned to beware of what’s in the basement.
Poor Blaire. She seems doomed. She has a lot of baggage, coming from Blackwater, a town filled with darkness. And now she appears to be pulled into a new darkness.
What I enjoyed most was that I didn’t have a clue about so many things. Was the orphanage cursed? The children? The staff? Blaire? Or all of the above. Evil can stain what it touches.
As for what’s in the basement. You better brace yourself. I was glued to the last part of this book. If this were a movie I’d be peeking through my fingers, fearing what was coming.
4 STARS
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Synopsis
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 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.
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