If you have ever lost someone suddenly, unexpectedly, and all those feelings are still fresh and open, then the last few chapters of this book will get to you. I love when poets write prose because the stories they tell are beautiful in both form and subject matter. Poets understand language struc...
The Returned is a beautifully written debut novel by Jason Mott. It's an interesting look into what would happen if the dead started coming back. This isn't your typical zombie story. The people don't want to eat you. They just appear one day having no idea how they got there or what happened to...
Review: 4 out of 5 starsI’m sort of at a loss for words about how to describe this book, it is unlike anything I have read most recently and it bought about a lot of moral and emotional questions about the overall subject matter – the deceased who have returned to life – not reincarnated or in any o...
Mr. Mott attempts to answer the age-old question "what if you could talk to the deceased one last time" in The Returned. However that one last time lasts quite a bit longer than anyone could ever imagine. Harold and Lucille Hargrave are currently in their seventies and live a peaceful (relatively) l...
Reading the synopsis of The Returned, you could be tempted to call this a zombie novel. After all, people returning from the dead are the essence of zombies, but even if there is that similarity, The Returned is definitely not what I would call a zombie story - and I'm completely OK with that.Inste...
I received a copy of The Returned via the first reads giveaway in exchange for a review. Like many others the premise of the novel had my attention and coerced me into putting my name in the first reads free giveaway. This was the first novel that I have won and with that, I naturally had an increas...
Check out Scott Reads It! for reviews, giveaways, & more! The Returned was one of the toughest books that I've read this year. It was extremely difficult for me to read because it's just so emotional and poignant. Each and every page is utterly heartbreaking and heartwarming in it's own way; th...
There's this line in [b:The Returned|9634|From the Dust Returned|Ray Bradbury|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1374049879s/9634.jpg|1098703] that can describe my mood throughout the book....but mostly the soldier only stood-or sometimes even sat- at the barricade, looking either very detac...
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