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    The Unquiet Past

    Written by Kelley Armstrong

    Narrated by Gabrielle Vaughn

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    Tess has always been tormented by waking visions that make her question her sanity. When the orphanage she lives in burns down, she decides to face her fears and find out once and for all what is wrong with her. She believes the truth must lie with her parents, and so, armed with only an address and phone number, Tess travels to a crumbling mansion in rural Quebec, where she discovers evidence of mistreatment of mental patients. She also makes an unlikely ally and gradually unearths her family’s sad history and finally accepts the truth about her paranormal powers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers Audio
    Release dateSep 22, 2015
    ISBN9781459810891
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    The Unquiet Past
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    Kelley Armstrong

    When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night. Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.

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    • 4/5
      One of my favorite authors! Pretty interesting book. I found it quite funny that one of the curse words used "cheese and rice" is one my sister in law uses quite frequently.
    • 5/5
      Who doesn't adore Kelly Armstrong? I have yet to read a work of hers that has disappointed. I haven't loved all of them, but I have always loved her storytelling.This is a departure from most of hers I've read and I loved it. Fast paced, creepy, chilling, exciting.....everything you want in a book you can't put down.
    • 4/5
      I requested Kelley Armstrong's Unquiet Past from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program because I'm a fan of her Otherworld series. This book is part of a Publisher's teen series called 'Secrets'. Unquiet Past is set in June of 1964, four months before my tenth birthday, which makes me considerably older than the target audience. I enjoyed it anyway.When the book opens, Tess is an orphan who lives at the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls (love that name) in the town of Hope in the province of Ontario, Canada. The girls leave the home when they're 18, but circumstances allow Tess to leave when she's not quite 17. The matron gives her the only clue she has to Tess' past. For a girl who doesn't even known her family name, it's a big thrill.Tess travels to Montreal in the province of Quebec (pronounced as if it starts with a 'k') before she takes a bus to get to Sainte Suzanne, part of the address she was given. Tess is no ordinary girl. She's not sure if her psychic ability is to see ghosts or something else. One thing for sure is that, unless there's an obvious clue, such as really old-fashioned clothing, she can't tell the persons in her visions from the persons who really are around her. That is, she can't until she finds out the person or persons can't see or hear her. Talk about your socially awkward moments if there are witnesses!At first it seems as if the address Tess was given won't be be able to provide her with any answers after all. With help from Jackson Labine, a boy a little older than herself, and her psychic abilities, that begins to change. (Jackson may lack manners, but I agree with his argument about what needs to be done with a man named Etienne. See chapter 16.Not all of the scary scenes in this book are visions of something that happened to someone else. The trail leads Tess and Jackson into great danger. I loved the taunt Tess gives the villain at the end of chapter 29. I am not familiar with the names of the other authors who have written for this series, but I definitely recommend this entry.There will be some French words used in this book. Don't worry. You may not have been required to take French in school as I was, but there will be translations.Notes:Chapter two: My favorite orphan fantasy about who she really was bothered me because the original 'Star Trek' series made its debut in 1966 (first-run fan here), but then I remembered the old DC Comics hero, Adam Strange. A quick check showed that he'd been around well before 1964, so never mind.Chapter three: Yes, adults would have glared at a teen who said 'Oh my god' in 1964. On the other hand, the go-go boots I envied a classmate for owning were white. I looked up go-go boots and yes, they were white in 1964. They came in other colors later.See chapter sixteen for a real-life horror story. I used to be a medical librarian. Based upon things I'd learned had happened in the USA, I was willing to believe it even before I looked it up.Chapter twenty-three: The Collector>, a book Tess wishes she hadn't chosen to read, is a real 1963 novel by John Fowles. The Dr. Donald Hebb mentioned was a real psychologist who really did do research into the subject Tess and Jackson are looking up. Check out the real-life work of another psychologist mentioned, Dr. Ewen Cameron, if you have a strong stomach.Chapter twenty-four: Don't let yourself miss the conversation between Jackson and an unnamed research assistant. The man doesn't just leap to an erroneous conclusion, he wallows in it. Chapter twenty-five: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident that Dr. Augustin tells Tess and Jackson about led to a book called An Adventure, for which the authors used the pen names of 'Elizabeth Morison' and 'Frances Lamont'. I've never read it because I first learned about it from my copy of The World's Most Intriguing True Mysteries by R. Furneaux, which takes a skeptic's view.
    • 4/5
      Armstrong has this wonderful way of really getting the reader pulled into her characters and this short book is no exception to this rule. The Unquiet Past focuses on a young orphan girl looking for answers about her past and in turn gets a mystery and adventure. This book was not entirely what I expected of it - seeing the cover and reading the synopsis, I was thinking more horror than mystery. That being said, I love a good mystery and this holds up pretty well in the genre.Tess was a little naive at times and that made me want to whack her in the head but otherwise she was a great point of view for this story. We follow her through her story as she tries to piece together what happened to her parents, and really it is about the adventure and the journey. Once you find out what happened it is brushed over and then the story ends - thus the 4 and not a 5 star rating. Overall this was a semi-spooky, mysterious book, that I very much enjoyed. If you are a fan of mystery I think this will be for you.
    • 4/5
      One of my favorite authors! Pretty interesting book. I found it quite funny that one of the curse words used "cheese and rice" is one my sister in law uses quite frequently.
    • 4/5
      This is one of 7 books in the “Secrets” series, all written by different authors. The premise behind the series, as a whole, is that, in 1964, an orphanage in Ontario has burnt down. The oldest kids are sent off on their own with only a small piece of info given to each of them about their past. In this one, Tess is given only a phone number (but it’s out of service) and an address in a town in Quebec. The address leads to a large abandoned house. Tess has visions, and has never told anyone other than her very best friend about them. She gets an eerie feeling in this house. What happened here and what is Tess’ connection to the place? I really liked this. I loved the super-creepy feeling at one point in the story. Wow, this author was very good with creating that creepy atmosphere! This is the second book I’ve read in this series, and I do plan to continue on.
    • 5/5
      As with all of Kelley's book, I loved this one. Read it in one sitting, didn't want to put it down. This is one of her YA titles and think it will be quite popular. She always has characters who you can like and enjoy. The story keeps your reading until you find out the mystery of Tess's mom. And there is a surprise towards the end I wasn't expecting. Highly recommend for the YA group.
    • 3/5
      Tess is 16 in 1964 when her orphanage in Quebec burns down. There is no plan to rebuild, so the older girls like Tess are given whatever information the matron has about their pasts, and sent on their way. Tess receives a (disconnnected) phone number and an address in rural Quebec, and she sets out for what turns out to be a literally haunted mansion . . . at least it is for Tess, because she has seen phantoms all her life. She has also had a recurring nightmare, which something tells her is associated with this big old mansion to which she is directed by the address.She is not the only one there; a cute 17-year old boy is apparently squatting in the house, and reacts hostilely to her intrusion. He is Jackson Labine, a Cree Métis. (Métis are people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, and one of the three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada.) Partly, Jackson is defensive because he always anticipates prejudice against him for his race, but there is something more he isn’t telling her. And there is a lot Tess isn’t telling him as well.Jackson claims to need money, and thus agrees to help Tess - for a fee -, to figure out why she was sent to the house. As they uncover its secrets, they learn each other’s secrets as well.Discussion: There is a lot of spookiness in this book, but much of it was left unexplained at the end. I kept waiting to read that this was only book one of a trilogy, because so much was left unsaid, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. In addition, while the first two-thirds of the book, involving mainly only Tess and Jackson, was satisfying and believable in spite of the paranormal aspect, the last third, when others came into the picture, really jumped the shark. Ordinarily this author is much better with nuanced characterization and plotting. This book felt too short and too rushed to me, and the plot seemed unfinished.
    • 4/5
      (This author is in my top ten list of best authors.)This book however is decidedly young adult. Young teen. Tess lives in an orphanage and after a fire, the lady that runs the orphanage declares them adults. (What? At sixteen) The orphanage will place the younger children but the older ones will be phased out and emancipated. This series seems to be put together by several different authors and each are getting one of the children set free to find out who they are and where they came from. All Tess get's is an address and a phone number as a clue. The phone number is disconnected so she has to travel to the address to find out more. I didn't really get engrossed in the book but it's a quick read. At the house, she meets a boy and finds a mystery. Both of them set out to solve it. I'm not sure what this book is classified as but it's part paranormal because Tess see's ghosts, part mystery, and part horror. Overall entertainment is four stars.Bad Ass Books
    • 4/5
      Normally I am only into the adult books by Kelley Armstrong (I haven't actually read a young adult book by her yet) but this one was surprisingly good. There are a few moments that may have been marginally lacking but that might be because I am accustomed to more mature reading. The story was basically good and interesting and I liked the two main characters quite a bit. For a young adult book it was surprisingly good and I have to admit I definitely enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      I am a huge fan of Kelley Armstrong 's grownup books. This was pretty good. I love how she leaves you hanging at the end of every chapter so you just want to keep reading. Tess is a girl who sees visions. When her orphanage burns down she sets off on an adventure to find her family.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable and eerie! I don't often read paranormal books set in fairly recent history, so a story with ghosts in the 1960s was pretty cool to read.
    • 5/5
      Creeptastic!This story had some spooky moments. A lot of intriguing moments too, where you had to keep turning the page to find out what happens. Very fast-paced.Not a story premise that I've read before. That in itself was appealing. It helped that this psycho-ghost story lured you in.I like the author a lot. There's an ease to her writing that has you reading for hours, without realizing how much time has past. You could help up reading a couple of hours and not really know it.I'd love to know more about these characters too. The story came to a close, I get that, but I think it would be cool if Tess and Jackson embarked on another journey. I'm pretty invested in these characters. Enough so, I don't really want the story to stop.That's good writing at work. Fans are in for a treat with this one, and newbies, enjoy!