I'm going to just go ahead and move this book to my DNF shelf. While I think this book is exceptionally well written in some respects, it just isn't my type of thing. I commend the author for his exceptional use of dialog, which sometimes makes you think you're standing in the room with the charac...
I'm going to just go ahead and move this book to my DNF shelf. While I think this book is exceptionally well written in some respects, it just isn't my type of thing. I commend the author for his exceptional use of dialog, which sometimes makes you think you're standing in the room with the charac...
Originally posted on my blog, A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall:What a great premise for a novel! I was excited to read The Returned. The writing was good and held my interest. It was fascinating to see how different people reacted to the phenomena, to consider how the government would intervene, and I...
What if the people we have loved and lost were able to come back to us? In Jason Mott’s The Returned, they do. Across the world, people are returning to Earth just as they were before their deaths with seemingly no pattern or reason. After spending decades adjusting to the loss of their 8 year old s...
Anyone who has ever lost a loved one has wondered: What would it be like if they were still alive? We always think in terms of the specific person we've lost. We wonder how it would feel for us to embrace our lost lover, to kiss our child, to talk to our mother again. But did you ever think about ...
Jason Mott’s The Returned is nothing like the synopsis would indicate. While readers might open the book expecting a good speculative fiction novel, what they find is something much more contemplative and less fantastic. The returning dead are not the main focus of the story but rather the impetus f...
I am still at a loss for words. It's amazing how the stories of fictional characters can push you to look deep within yourself, encouraging you to find your own answers to the same questions asked. Very rarely do I feel so connected that my heart bursts with emotions so raw and intense, that my soul...
When I first read the blurb, I was intrigued by the premise of the deaths returning back to life. Serious, how on Earth did they do that?My expectation was a book with tons of suspenseful moments, but I ended up...I was shocked, because it was not what I expect yet I still LOVED it!I was glued to th...
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