Audience: Adult Format: Hardcover/Owned Harold opened the door that day to find a dark-skinned man in a well-cut suit smiling at him. - first sentence This book was okay. People start returning from the dead, not coming back from the grave, but just appearing in places all over the world. There ...
On an ordinary day, at an air show like that in any small town across the country, a plane crashes into a crowd of spectators. After the dust clears, a thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath a pocket of rubble with her best friend, Wash. He is injured and bleeding, and when Ava pl...
This is the last of the three prequels for The Returned (see also The First and The Sparrow), which follows one of the returned after coming back from the dead. Only in this short story, that doesn't really happy. The girl who disappeared 20 years ago and was probably murdered is not the main char...
This was another short story released to interest people in The Returned, and focusses on the story of a little girl. Apparently she's also mentioned in the novel, but I didn't remember that. Of all the three short stories (there's also The First & The Choice, this one stayed with me most. Even th...
So, the concept of The Returned is really interesting. It's actually the reason I chose to read this book in the first place. Imagine if the dead came back. Not as zombies, but as living, breathing people. Just the same as the way they were when they died. As the dead come back, what happens to the ...
During a local festival of some sorts a small plane crashes into the people watching the show. In the events that follow, thirteen year old Ava is seen when she miraculously heals the wounds of her best friend Wash. The video spreads around the internet like wildfire. Although it might seem wonderfu...
A while ago I received an arc of this from goodreads first reads, but didn't really review it. So I thought I would reread it, and review it. The book follows a small town called Arcadia, specifically an older couple(Harold and Lucille Hargrave), as they try to deal with the dead coming back to life...
Would someone really be able to heal another person and have that ability and not know it? Does love bring it to the surface? Does it happen when a dire situation closely affecting the healer happens? Ava didn't know she had the ability to heal, and it turned her life upside down and the entire ...
Stone Temple, North Carolina is a typical small town, until one of their own returns home to participate in an air show and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of two families. Ava Campbell was nothing special to anyone other than her family and friends until the day of the...
Received a copy of The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott through the First Reads Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review " An entire lifetime came and went and, in the scope of understanding its entirety, Ava could finally see the long, winding road that led her mother to the rafters of t...
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