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New York : New American Library, c2004.
Description
A school for special children. An unsolved murder. A terrified widow. A dream of blood and lost souls. A stranger with an unspeakable secret. It all comes together in the afterlife.
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LibraryThing member the_hag
This was an easy light read with moderate predictability and very open ending...the author leaves a lot to the imagination especially at that end, and I rather like that in an age where way too much is shown/detailed in books and movies. I've enjoyed a couple of books by this author and would
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certainly read more. This was more suspense to me than horror with the paranormal thrown in....and an interesting/fresh look at death. I give it a solid B+, it was interesting but didn't really creep me out the way I like to be when I read horror/suspense/thrillers. Show Less
LibraryThing member shob.dw
I've only read Clegg in short story anthologies, and thought he was pretty good. I picked up this coz it was short and the back cover had blurbs from the usual suspects - Straub(!), Koontz, Saul, Mccammon, Little, etc. Being the first Clegg novel i read - it bombed. The idea of the Afterlife had
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been done a million times over, and this book really does not offer anything new. It borders more on sci-fi than horror, the plot wafer-thin (u can see it coming a mile away), and the story just trudges along at a slow leisurely pace. By the time you expect it to pickup, it fizzles out and ends. And what a lame ending it was. You don't feel anything for the victim or the villain (if u can even call it that), and - mind you, the book has got parts which are strictly ADULT - ends up feeling amateurish. Might pickup another Clegg book to give him another shot, but it won't be anytime soon. Show Less
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Original publication date
2004
Physical description
278 p.; 18 inches
ISBN
0451411676 / 9780451411679