The Killing Jar by Jennifer Bosworth (Epub)

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“I try not to think about it, what I did to that boy.” Seventeen-year-old Kenna Marsden has a secret. She’s haunted by a violent tragedy she can’t explain. Kenna’s past has kept people-even her own mother-at a distance for years. Just when she finds a friend who loves her and life begins to improve, she’s plunged into a new nightmare: her mom and twin sister are attacked, and the dark powers Kenna has struggled to suppress awaken with a vengeance. On the heels of the assault, Kenna is exiled to a nearby commune, known as Eclipse, to live with a relative she never knew she had. There, she discovers an extraordinary new way of life as she learns who she really is, and the wonders she’s capable of. For the first time, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere; that her terrible secret makes her beautiful and strong, not dangerous. But the longer she stays at Eclipse, the more she senses there is something menacing lurking underneath its idyllic veneer. And she begins to suspect that her new family may have sinister plans for her…

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Editorial Reviews: Review “[A] swiftly paced page-turner.” “Booklist”” –This text refers to the paperback edition. About the Author Jennifer Bosworth lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of the young adult novel Struck and is the writer half of a writer/director team with her husband, Ryan Bosworth. –This text refers to the paperback edition. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Killing JarBy Jennifer BosworthFarrar, Straus and GirouxCopyright © 2016 Jennifer BosworthAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-374-34137-4ContentsTitle Page, Copyright Notice, Dedication, Epigraph, Prologue: The Killing, Gray Girl, When the Music’s Over, So Much Blood, Lights Out, Impossible, Circle of Death, It’s Happening Again, The Road to Somewhere, Eclipse, Rebekah, This Side of the River, Cyrus, Kalyptra, Listen Carefully, Moonflower and Moth, Moderation, Midnight Glory, Awake, Last Day, Returned, Splinters and Stains, Anya, Best Night Ever, The Lake, Yes, X Marks the Spot, Darkness, Transformation, Epilogue: Life, Acknowledgments, About the Author, Also by Jennifer Bosworth, Copyright, CHAPTER 1Gray GirlSometimes you forget you’re alive until you’re scared to death. As I took in the massing herd of festival attendees, I felt more alive than I had in years. Alive and sick, my stomach churning like a cyclone. I should have skipped dinner, and probably lunch, and breakfast, too, because I was likely about to lose them all in front of hundreds of people.”Nervous?” Blake asked, eyeing me from the driver’s seat. The endless line of cars we’d been trapped behind began to move, and a parking attendant wearing a tie-dyed T-shirt waved us forward.”Nope,” I said, my voice trembling. “Not a bit.””Seriously?”He looked so hopeful I hated to disappoint him. “You know how people always say they have butterflies in their stomach when they’re nervous? I have ostriches. A stampeding army of ostriches. I envy the people who have butterflies. They don’t know how lucky they are.””A.,” he said, “you have nothing to be nervous about because you’re going to kick ass. B. I’m stealing your ostriches. Think of it: an army of savage, alien ostriches living on a squishy pink planet that resembles the lining of a stomach.””Sounds homey,” I said. In a week, Blake would have drawn a whole new comic inspired by my anxiety and posted it to his blog. “You better at least dedicate the story to me.””To my reluctant muse, Kenna, and her stomach full of ostriches.” Blake grinned at me, but seeing my expression his amusement curdled to a sheepish cringe. “Are you really freaking out?””You said this was a small festival,” I reminded him. “I was not prepared for this.” I gestured toward the stage, and the sea of festivalgoers.”Well … I’ve never been to a music festival. I didn’t have anything to compare it to.”A female parking attendant wearing tube socks and cutoff Daisy Duke shorts directed Blake toward a space that looked barely big enough to accommodate a motorcycle. By some miracle, he managed to wedge his rattling 4Runner into the space, and the short-shorts-wearing attendant gave him a double thumbs-up and a dizzy grin. Blake smiled back at her, and a pang of jealousy gonged in my chest.He’s not your boyfriend, I reminded myself. He can check out whomever he wants.Still, I couldn’t help glaring at Short Shorts through the passenger window. She sneered at me and turned away, but not before I read the words printed on her tie-dyed festival shirt:Folk Yeah! Fest 2016 Folk You! Folk Me! Folk Everybody!”Either way, it’s too late to back out now,” Blake said. “Someone’s already blocked us in.”The parking was tandem, and we were jammed in front and back. There would be no leaving until the fe –This text refers to the hardcover edition. Read more

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⭐This review was originally published at Dazzled by Books: […]“The Killing Jar” by Jennifer Bosworth was just WOW! Let’s start by talking about this beautiful cover. I don’t know a single person that isn’t going to be drawn to such a beautiful cover. I am completely in love with it. I love the lettering and the picture and I think all of it together is fabulous. Moving on..I really liked this story because I really got to know Kenna, the main character. Kenna has such a complicated background. Her inner monologue is one of the best I’ve read. Bosworth was definitely able to keep my attention. Kenna has been blessed with a gift that she isn’t totally sure how to use. She has been brought up that this special power she has is wrong and that if she uses it, she is wrong. The synopsis starts out by talking about a violent tragedy that she can’t explain. If this doesn’t draw a reader in, I don’t know what will.I really liked “The Killing Jar” because I feel like the characters were excellent. The plot was fantastic. I love how intriguing this plot is. Everything was wrapped up quite nicely. This story is definitely geared towards creepy and scary. This novel is classified as being a YA Horror novel. I don’t feel like the book was that scary. I actually could have used a lot more scary. I was preparing myself for this really scary novel and it just wasn’t there. The book had some creepy parts of I didn’t think it was scary at all. I am not totally sure where I would classify the novel, maybe paranormal? I do know there was plenty of times that I was creeped out though. I love this story.You can really tell that Bosworth put so much of her soul into this book because you can just read it on the page. The novel is written so beautifully. I am extremely impressed with Bosworth’s writing. I am looking forward to what else Bosworth has up her sleeve. If you ever get a chance to meet Jennifer Bosworth, she is such a sweet individual. For her to come up with something like this….I swear she has a diabolical mind. She may look all sunshine and unicorns but she definitely is not (at least when you read this story).

⭐Ms. Bosworth has a wonderful voice and a very compelling knack for storytelling. I loved the characters had clear pictures in my head of each one but what strikes me most in this novel is the easy flow of the narrative. It pulled me right in and made me feel a part of the story to the very end. Great read!

⭐I loved Kenna’s suspenseful, lyrical journey to find the origin of her dark power & the true meaning of family. I also found the twist in the end hugely gratifying, and the imagery and narration a complete feast for the mind.

⭐It took me a few days to get into this book, but once I did I couldn’t put it down. Good book to read.

⭐I loved it. The details and twists and turns.

⭐Fantastically visually vivid; wonderfully creative plot and tantalizingly rich characters. A 10 of 10 for a fast-paced, entertaining read. I want more!

⭐This is one of the best books I’ve read in some time. I put off reading this for like two years, and I am so happy I finally got to it, because what a gem! A creepy gem, but still a gem.I try not to think about it, what I did to that boy.Kenna, our MC, is living with a secret. Kenna has a twin sister, Erin, that she loves more than anything. Makes sense, yeah? Well, when a creepy little boy from school (one who tortures and kills animals) decides to do a REALLY messed up thing, resulting in her sister’s pain… 10-year-old Kenna decides to exact vengeance. Only, she never meant for it to end in the boy dying. When she confronted the boy, Jason, Kenna was overcome by a power she didn’t know she possessed. Letting this power take over her, she literally syphons the life out of Jason and he dies, nothing more than a husk remaining.Following this, Kenna’s mother covers it up and tells Kenna she must NEVER do that again. Kenna tamps down her power and never touches anyone after killing Jason. She even pushes away her sister and her mother.Years later, on the heels of another incident, Kenna’s mother decides to send her to stay with her grandmother in a commune called Eclipse. At this commune, Kenna learns that she is not fully human. She is Kalyptra. Kalyptra are supernatural beings that consume the anima of living things to satiate a hunger inside of them. From what I understood, the Kalyptra don’t need anima to live, but it is their sacred right as beings who worship and sacrifice to the ancient Eclipse Moth (basically an all-mother type of being).So, I really started to fall in love with this book from the point of Kenna learning of her true nature. While she is staying at Eclipse, her grandmother, Rebekkah, manipulates her and brainwashes her to an extent. She even secretly feeds Kenna human anima when this is the reason Kenna came to Eclipse to begin with! SHE DOESN’T WANT TO HURT PEOPLE. She thought they were just syphoning from plant life. Eventually, Kenna realizes something is off, and she digs deeper into the people and things around her. She finds information that is horrifying and learns that her new “family” are really really screwed up people.This book had a very dark aspect to it. Blood, torture, sacrifices, other cult practices… The entire commune (it was a cult, let’s be real) thing was creepy as well. They all just chill up in the woods of a mountain, basically in an altered-state due to the amount of anima they’ve consumed. It’s a giant group of—for lack of better word—hippies who suck the life out of people and worship a killer supernatural moth who requires sacrifices to continue to bestow the power upon them. When I say moth, I don’t mean a moth the size of a butterfly—think DRAGON. It sounds insane, but the whole thing WORKS. It’s terrifying! Kenna learns to see her curse as more of a gift (through manipulation and lies) while staying there, but upon finding out bits of the truth, she is torn. She wants to be around people who understand her and are like her, but at what cost?Everything comes to a head when Kenna’s grandmother tries to sacrifice her mother to the Eclipse Moth. I interpreted this as Rebekkah’s way of killing two birds with one stone, if you will. Not only was it an obvious show of dominance over Kenna and her mother (along with the rest of the Kalyptra), but also a way to satisfy the Eclipse Moth AND eliminate Kenna’s family, thus making her dependent on Rebekkah herself.Overall, I feel that it is truly difficult for me to express how much I loved this book and exactly why. The story just had this dark feel to it and it was a true horror. It takes place in just the regular contemporary world, but it doesn’t FEEL that way. It felt like an entirely different world to me—just a perpetually murky world. I enjoyed the characters. I was absolutely thrilled with the plot. The book was packed with storyline (and a very thorough one at that) even though it is only about 350 pages. I wish there was more to this story but, thankfully, the author wrapped it up very well at the end. I recommend this if you like creepy, unique stories with a dark twist.

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