I loved how the supernatural ties into the historical side as well. With only occasional mentions as the book opens, understated clues and foreshadowing opens a window into an amazing world of ghosts and the supernatural that leaves the reader breathless. Now I’m in awe.The supernatural in this work is very subtle, almost ethereal and mystical. Yet, once things really got rolling, my eyes were opened to how the author was incorporating those creepy elements. I was at first a bit disappointed in the book, the balance of supernatural elements and historical fiction story telling seemed off balance to me. I loved how Jazz played such an important part of this book and the ending absolutely made the book for me. The apparitions begin to appear more frequently and Ivy is not sure who she will lose next. People are living in the moment, because there may be no tomorrow. There, she learns that the pandemic has wreaked havoc and the norms of society are breaking down. Unable to bear living in the same house with them, she packs her bags and heads into town.

Then, to her horror, she learns that her father and brother have killed a German shop owner in town in retaliation. When Ivy recovers from the Spanish Flu in 1918, she sees the spirit of her Grandmother and learns shorty thereafter that her brother, Billy, was killed in the war. Ivy has the gift/curse of seeing ghosts: The presence of these Uninvited guests always heralds the death of someone else in her life. A book of War, the Spanish Influenza, Family, Guilt, Jazz Music and Ghostly Apparitions.

Uninvited by sophie jordan