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Cargando... The Damned: A Novel (edición 2015)por Andrew Pyper (Autor)
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"Danny Orchard died on his 16th birthday-and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh-but only Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience of heaven called The After, but despite his fame and fortune he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. His sister won't let him. Charming and magnetic in life, Ash appeared perfect to outsiders but the budding psychopath privately terrorized her family, and that hasn't stopped with her death. She's haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he's met the love of his life and has a chance at a real family, Ash is more determined than ever to keep him all to herself. Danny's already been to heaven. But in order to silence his sister once and for all, he'll have to meet her where she now resides. Which means he has to die one more time before he - and the ones he loves - can go on living."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The good news is, hot damn, the first two-thirds of this novel are fantastic. Dark, disturbing, creepy, and scary as shit. I love the idea, the characters, and Pyper's writing hasn't been this amazing (and, at his worst, he's fantastic) since [b:Lost Girls|1664002|Lost Girls|Andrew Pyper|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1186545603s/1664002.jpg|1677689].
Then there's the bad news. The last third lost me. When he brought in the tiger and GM, it all just kind of unraveled and, at least for me, all tension was lost. It felt like the rules and logic of death just became too elastic.
A bit of additional good news, the end (once we got past the tigers and GM) was quite satisfying.
So, overall, I enjoyed it, but there was a span of 70-odd pages that just didn't quite do it for me. ( )