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  • By: Cat Winters
  • Narrator: Xe Sands
  • Category: Fiction, Horror
  • Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 04, 2016
  • Language: English
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From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.

In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.

Seven-year-old Janie O’Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they’re no more than the product of the girl’s vast imagination. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth.

Alice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life.

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Yesternight Audiobook Narrator

Xe Sands is the narrator of Yesternight audiobook that was written by Cat Winters

Cat Winters's debut novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, was released to widespread critical acclaim. The novel has been named a finalist for the 2014 Morris Award, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, and a Booklist 2013 Top 10 Horror Fiction for Youth. Winters lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

About the Author(s) of Yesternight

Cat Winters is the author of Yesternight

Yesternight Full Details

Narrator Xe Sands
Length 8 hours 42 minutes
Author Cat Winters
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 04, 2016
ISBN 9780062563934

Subjects

The publisher of the Yesternight is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Horror

Additional info

The publisher of the Yesternight is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062563934.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Drew

November 16, 2016

Miss Simpkin drew another long puff and blew smoke out of the right side of her mouth. “Do you believe in past lives, Miss Lind?” 4 1/2 stars. Goodness, I just love Cat Winters. Historical fiction set in Oregon (my hometown), mysteries, and elements of the paranormal? It's like she custom wrote a book just for me.Each of her books so far have been right up my alley and Yesternight was no exception. If anything, with each new book she releases, her writing only gets better and better. And it's about time more people started taking notice of her.Cat Winters has published not just one, but two amazing books in 2016. I was floored by The Steep & Thorny Way that came out earlier this year following a girl trying to solve her father's murder. Yesternight is another mystery of sorts, but it takes Winters' usual ghostly paranormal plots to another level and focuses on reincarnation.Alice Lind is a young psychologist, struggling to make it in a field that, during the 1920s, was largely dominated by men. A lot of people won't even take her seriously once they realize she is female. When Alice comes to Gordon Bay to administer IQ tests to school children, one child captures her interest. Seven year old Janie O'Daire claims she was Violet Sunday in a past life and lived in Kansas before her violent death.The atmosphere in this book was the perfect amount of creepy, full of rainy Oregon nights and Alice's befuddlement as she, a believer of science, wondered, Could reincarnation be real? Her questions spiraled her into a dark place as she remembered events of her past. Soon she was too caught up in the O'Daire mystery to escape.I love how Winters' books can be read by both adults and teens. Her young adult novels don't hold any of the usual overdone themes found in the genre, and her adult books, like this one and The Uninvited, are light on adult content with only a bit more language and sexual content, so they can also be read by younger readers.A hint of romance, an abundance of suspense, and delicious historical details, Yesternight couldn't have been more perfect. I know I went to bed the night I finished it with shivers up my spine and a lingering sense of dread.

Mlpmom (Book Reviewer)

September 24, 2016

That ending! *shudders* Review to come closer to release date.Edited to add review:Cat Winter's has quickly become one of my favorite authors when I want a good well written historical read with the touch of something other. Yesternight does not disappoint.Alice is the type of girl Winters has become known for, tough, brave, and not at all conventional for the time period she lives in, but Alice also has a dark side, one she tries to keep hidden from all those around her, even her family. I don't want to go into too much detail but I will say this, Winter's take on reincarnation was fabulously done. This was eery at times and filled with unexpected twists and turns I just didn't see coming. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it and the ending left me both chilled and delighted. Another fabulous, suspense filled read from Winters.*ARC copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*

Colleen

October 12, 2016

Find my full review at http://aliteraryvacation.blogspot.comAs soon as I read the synopsis of this book I knew I had to read it! My undergrad degree is in psychology and I've always found the subject matter fascinating. I've also always found the paranormal interesting, so the combination of the very grounded and measurable study of psychology and this wild and unpredictable investigation of reincarnation was too delicious to pass up. It seemed to promise to be dark and eerie and thought-provoking, and Yesternight comes through on all of those promises. My first two thoughts when I started reading Yesternight were 1) This tossed and stormy setting is PERFECT for a creepy story! and 2) How cool is Alice Lind, a smart, determined woman pushing her way through a man's field and refusing to back down! The author did a great job of showing how hard Alice had to work to be taken seriously as a psychologist as well as the double standards she faced when it came to her sexuality. A good amount of time was spent on her sexuality and the fact that her needs were considered obscene for the times, while we know now those needs would just be considered normal. I have to say that this aspect of the story was my least favorite as it drew away from the much more interesting (in my opinion) past lives aspects, however I understand it served a point that becomes a little more evident towards the end of the story. My very favorite aspect of the story was the exploration of the past lives a few of our characters (not only Janie) experienced, and how those past lives bled into their present, affecting them in some interesting and disturbing ways. The ending was absolutely chilling to me and the whole discussion really made me think about how much I believe in reincarnation and, if it is true, how many traits (both bad and good) someone could bring over to their new life. It was really interesting to watch the characters grapple with the frustration, fear, and confusion they inevitably felt trying to figure out what truly was happening to them...and what had already happened that they couldn't remember! Some of the actions of the characters were really horrific and went quite a way to make me dislike them as a whole, however the process they all went through was really fun to read about.Yesternight definitely gave me that creep-factor I want this time of year and in novels dealing with this subject matter. It took some turns that I didn't expect (and some that I didn't necessarily enjoy) but all in all it was a well written story that made me think long and hard about the possibilities it presented. I'm excited to read the author's first novel, The Uninvited, and look forward to what she comes out with next.

Carol

July 31, 2017

Yesternight by Cat Winters5★'s What's It About?A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There, she begins a journey causing her to question everything she believes about life, death, memories, and reincarnation.In 1925, Alice Lind steps off a train in the rain-soaked coastal hamlet of Gordon Bay, Oregon. There, she expects to do nothing more difficult than administer IQ tests to a group of rural schoolchildren. A trained psychologist, Alice believes mysteries of the mind can be unlocked scientifically, but now her views are about to be challenged by one curious child.Seven-year-old Janie O’Daire is a mathematical genius, which is surprising. But what is disturbing are the stories she tells: that her name was once Violet, she grew up in Kansas decades earlier, and she drowned at age nineteen. Alice delves into these stories, at first believing they’re no more than the product of the girl’s vast imagination. But, slowly, Alice comes to the realization that Janie might indeed be telling a strange truth.Alice knows the investigation may endanger her already shaky professional reputation, and as a woman in a field dominated by men she has no room for mistakes. But she is unprepared for the ways it will illuminate terrifying mysteries within her own past, and in the process, irrevocably change her life.What Did I Think?How many lives can and do we live? It was a book that you just couldn't put down. Cat Winters weaves this story of a family with a seven year old daughter that is at times old beyond her years, and a school physiologist that struggles to believe that what she suspects isn't happening. Alice Lind tells herself that what she is doing is to help Janie O'Daire and her estranged mother and father but the deeper she digs the more her own troubled past seems to be catching up to overpower her. You hoped that everything would turn out okay but you knew that at some point their world was going to collapse around their ears. Even though there is a supernatural flavor...not of ghostly hauntings but of reincarnation.... throughout the story line it is also a story of how society viewed the roles of males and females during the flapper era and how thankful we should be that those attitudes are past...but it seems that nothing may really remain in the past. Historical and paranormal fans will love the book.

Brittany

September 29, 2016

Alice Lind,Alice Lind,Took a stick and beat her friend. Should she die?Should she live?How many beatings did she give? As expected Yesternight is another marvelous read from Cat Winters.Having loved her first adult novel - and her YA's - I had high hopes for this and it did not disappoint.The writing was phenomenal and the overall story was eerie and atmospheric. I had an incredibly hard time putting it down.Alice Lind is a child psychologist who travels from town to town administering IQ tests. When she arrives in Gordon Bay, Oregon the last thing she expects is to encounter a child who forces her to question her beliefs about life and death.Seven-year-old Janie O'Daire is a mathematical genius who claims to have been a woman named Violet Sunday in a past life. Alice struggles to accept the idea of reincarnation as doing so could jeopardize her career but it doesn't take long before she finds herself swept up in solving the mystery of Violet Sunday. Her entanglement with the O'Daires eventually leads to some unsettling suspicions about her own past and an old inn called Yesternight.A twisty plot and chilling ending certainly make Yesternight one heck of a page-turner and a definite must read!*ARC provided by HarperCollins/Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

Deanna

July 26, 2018

It’s 1925 and Alice Lind, a visiting school psychologist, arrives during a storm in a small town on the Oregon coast to identify students whose needs may not be being met by their local school. She gets involved in a case of apparent reincarnation in a bright seven-year-old girl and becomes intent on investigating the case. Meanwhile she has a budding romance with the girl’s divorced father. The story seemed almost like two stories combined when the child’s case is “solved” and Alice begins to investigate her own possible past life which may be responsible for unexplained quirks of her personality and a tendency to violent outbursts.While the concept for the novel is interesting, I thought the romance between Alice and Michael was hard to swallow. Alice is so odd that it seemed unlikely that handsome and very normal Michael O’Daire would be attracted to her. I would also have opted for a different ending, one without the horror twist that made me feel like I’d been dropped into The Omen.It might have helped if I had read previous novels by Cat Winters or realized she writes stories considered horror. Then I might have been prepared for the direction the story took. But I think the novel would have worked even without that ending, which seemed a bit tacked on for horror fans. I enjoyed the novel as a psychological study and a period piece.

Deb

October 11, 2016

It took me about 10 seconds flat to sign up for the Yesternight book tour, the "haunting historical mystery" description and 1925 small Oregon coastal town setting drawing me right in. And how perfect is the cover? The colors, the picture and the mood it sets make it perfect for a spooky October read. Thankfully, what is inside lived up to the self-hype in my head and it delivered an atmospheric story that kept me absorbed and turning the pages. I was reading it during a particularly warm and humid week here and so I had to turn on the air conditioning, pour a cup of apple-cinnamon tea, and set the right mood. Speaking of mood, Yesternight definitely sets a good, creepy paranormal tone from the start when young psychologist Alice Lind steps off the train and is immediately slammed to the ground from the storm. It's clear that Alice has some issues and baggage, more than the two suitcases she travels with, that she has brought along as she arrives to test the children in the rural community of Gordon Bay, Oregon for their IQ and aptitude. When she learns of young Janie O'Daire and about her mathematical prowess and her strange stories of growing up in Kansas as a young woman named Violet Sunday, she is set to prove them make-believe tales from a intelligent and impressionable seven-year-old mind rather than anything paranormal, but soon she can't deny that something strange is going on and that it may be tied somehow to her own childhood issues. The character of Alice is interesting and the book focuses much of the story around her--especially the second half. Finding reincarnation and spooky children to be fascinating, I wanted more time spent with Janie. Staying away from any detail, so as not to spoil the story, I will say that at times it felt as though Janie was a teaser to get into Alice's past. There are plenty of twists in the story--a couple I saw coming but some I did not and while I wouldn't call it scary, it left me me with a good chill. Had I read it in a creepy old hotel in the winter, I would have jumped more, but it definitely had that nice eerie, Gothic feel to it that made it a fun pre-Halloween book. Yesternight is my first book by this author and it is her second adult novel--based on this one, I'll be looking for more of her work. You can see my review and a recipe inspired by the book on my blog post here: http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20...Note: A review copy of "Yesternight" was provided to me by the publisher, Harper Collins and TLC Book Tours. I was not compensated for this review and as always, my thoughts and opinions are my own.

Andrea at Reading Lark

October 03, 2016

Review Posted on Reading Lark 10/3/16: http://readinglark.blogspot.com/2016/...Cat Winters always blends history and fantasy in a chilling way. Yesternight is no exception to this trend, and in some ways, Yesternight is her creepiest novel yet.The year is 1925 and Alice Lind is working for the Oregon Education Department. Alice moves from town to town giving IQ tests to students and recommending placement for those who are advanced or struggling. Her job takes her to Gordon Bay, a small coastal town, where her entire life will change course. In Gordon Bay, Alice becomes intrigued by a young girl named Janie O'Daire. Janie is seven years old, but claims to remember her past life as Violet Sunday, a nineteen year old mathematical genius who died in a freezing lake. Alice must determine if her training as a psychologist will rule out or if she will entertain the idea that reincarnation may be possible.As Alice begins to to investigate Janie's story, she finds that the world is not as black and white as it should be. Her own childhood is colored in shades of gray. Janie's story will inspire her to dive into her past to find answers.The reincarnation angle was well done and thought provoking. I certainly would be freaked out if my child began to ask to be called by a different name and remembered specific details of a place he had never visited. There were moments when I was reading this one at night that I had to put it aside because my imagination kept running away with me. This is a perfect October read. The ending was unexpected and darkly satisfying.One Last Gripe: Alice is a difficult character to like at times.Favorite Thing About This Book: The paranormal elementsFirst Sentence: I disembarked a train at the little log depot at Gordon Bay, Oregon, and a sudden force - a charging bull - immediately slammed me to the ground.Favorite Character: JanieLeast Favorite Character: Stu from Graduate School

Heidi

December 21, 2020

What a pleasant surprise this book turned out to be! How come I haven’t come across this author before? The story contained everything I love in a good, creepy tale: an enigmatic, independent female protagonist with a dark secret, a mystery that can’t totally be explained away with rational reasoning, and a spooky, atmospheric backdrop to the story. I was especially fascinated by the premise of reincarnation and children being able to remember past lives, it made for such an intriguing angle.The book featured two very distinct storylines. In the first, Alice Lindt, child psychologist, comes across a little girl who apparently remembers a past life as a mathematician in Kansas. And once that mystery has been explored, Alice sets off to exorcise her own dark demons, an thread which leads into even spookier waters. Set in the 1920s, the historical facts gave the story additional depth and an original angle. I particularly liked the slow gentle lead up to the darkness and menace that became evident in later parts of the story, and how the author hides more serious issues in her story, such as the role of women in the 1920s, feminism, the nature vs nurture debate and spiritualism, in particular the notion of reincarnation. In short, this was a cracking good read, and one that kept me eagerly turning the pages. I look forward to reading more from this author in future! *blog* *facebook* *instagram*

Neha

December 13, 2017

Historical fiction, set in the 1920s, with a female psychologist as the protagonist - need I say more? The beginning is slow, quaint and eerily calm, but the book gets darker and darker as the plot thickens and continues being surprising till the very end. The psychologist's own issues as well as her angst about having to live in a male dominated world, add to the plot in delightful ways. The only thing I was disappointed about, was that in the second half, Winters seemed to have sacrificed investing in the character of Alice Lind for the sake of having a thrilling plot. I didn't like the deviation from psychology (a setting that gave substance to Alice Lind's character) - Alice became the mystery she was trying to solve, became the detective of her own story and made unreasonable and inexplicable choices.

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