The Damned: A Novel
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"The Damned underlines Pyper's growing reputation as one of the most talented successors to the inimitable Stephen King." —Daily Mail (UK)
Most people who have a near-death experience come back alone...but not Danny Orchard.
After he survived a fire that claimed the life of his evil twin sister, Ashleigh, Danny wrote a bestselling memoir about going to heaven and back. But despite the resulting fame and fortune, he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life: Ash won't let him.
She's haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he's met the love of his life and has a chance at real happiness, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive—so she sets her sights on Danny's new wife and stepson. To save them from her wrath, he'll have to meet his sister where she now resides—and hope that this time he can keep her there forever.
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Andrew Pyper. (2015). The Damned: A Novel. Simon & Schuster.
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"The Damned underlines Pyper's growing reputation as one of the most talented successors to the inimitable Stephen King." —Daily Mail (UK)
Most people who have a near-death experience come back alone...but not Danny Orchard.
After he survived a fire that claimed the life of his evil twin sister, Ashleigh, Danny wrote a bestselling memoir about going to heaven and back. But despite the resulting fame and fortune, he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life: Ash won't let him.
She's haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he's met the love of his life and has a chance at real happiness, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive—so she sets her sights on Danny's new wife and stepson. To save them from her wrath, he'll have to meet his sister where she now resides—and hope that this time he can keep her there forever. - reviews
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Pyper (The Demonologist) makes a familiar plotline fresh in this literate supernatural thriller. In 1989, at the age of 16, Danny Orchard’s twin sister, Ash, dies in a fire in an abandoned Detroit house. Danny himself almost dies that night as well, but his survival, coupled with his somehow coming into possession of a watch that was buried with his late mother, leads some locals to believe that he passed beyond the veil and returned. But for Ash, a sadist in life, death is no obstacle for her to continue tormenting her sibling. As Danny grows into adulthood, she haunts him. When he finds happiness with a woman (whom he met speaking about his near-death experiences), Ash also targets her, leading Danny to seek the truth of Ash’s death in the hope of putting her ghost to rest once and for all. As in the best horror, Pyper’s keen eye for the quotidian makes the fantastic feel plausible. Agent: Stephanie Cabot, Gernert Company.
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Danny Orchard is a (literally) haunted man, his adult life shadowed by the ghost of his twin sister who died at the young but certainly not innocent age of 16. Ashleigh (shortened to "Ash" most of the time, which seems appropriate given her fiery death) made other lives miserable before her own ended, committing everything from the murder of small animals to acts of sexual sabotage (forcing a boyfriend to cut off his own fingers on a table saw). Although Danny achieves modest fame upon writing a memoir about his brush with the afterlife, he exists alone because Ash's spirit threatens to sabotage any connection he makes with others. Ash's rage awakens when he falls in love, and Danny soon realizes that he will need to make another trip "beyond" to truly lay his sister to rest. VERDICT Pyper's (The Demonologist) depictions of the afterlife are visceral and frightening (especially those set on the 8 Mile strip in a desiccated, otherworldly Detroit). The midstory shift to mystery (who killed Ash, and why?) and revelation of family secrets propels the novel to a satisfying conclusion. Recommended for fans of horror and narratives of family dysfunction and supernatural psychopathy. [See Prepub Alert, 9/1/14.]--Victoria Caplinger, MLS, Durham, NC
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Most people who have a near-death experience come back alone...but not Danny Orchard.
After he survived a fire that claimed the life of his evil twin sister, Ashleigh, Danny wrote a bestselling memoir about going to heaven and back. But despite the resulting fame and fortune, he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life: Ash won't let him.
She's haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he's met the love of his life and has a chance at real happiness, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive—so she sets her sights on Danny's new wife and stepson. To save them from her wrath, he'll have to meet his sister where she now resides—and hope that... - sortTitle
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