I had a hard time rating this story, and shelving it. It's less of a short story and more of a little wayside chapter that didn't have a place in the novel or something, a sub plot of a different family going through the ordeal (?) of having someone who had died return inexplicably as if they had...
Con questo primo racconto che anticipa il romanzo The Returned, si scopre come tutto ha inizio: il protagonista è il primo Redivivo di cui si viene a conoscenza. Qui non è stato difficile immaginare come mi sarei comportata al posto di Emily… un anno, quando perdi l’amore della tua vita, proprio ...
As I said, I first saw the TV series then found these three books for free on audible and I was delighted. These are short stories, each depicting the return of one person and the impact it has. The narrator is very cool and calm in his story telling method which adds to the over all chilling e...
* Attention contains minor spoilers *I don’t feel I can give a justified rating here, as these are not really short-stories in a classic sense, they are merely longer vignettes, focusing on stories of love and loss, set around the events in Jason Mott’s The Returned, a novel in which the deceased...
This was my favorite of the three prequel short stories to The Returned. A couple find a young girl alongside the road and decide to take her home with them. The woman sympathizes with the girl and does everything she can to help her, including trying to find her family. The man doesn't believe s...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Jason Mott has a smooth writing style, and he's put together a plot that may seem simple, but yet it's quite complex. What would do if you had the power to heal others, but at a great cost to yourself? What would you do if that power belonged to your daughter or fr...
This is a wonderful story of a small backwoods town that harbors a miracle. This miracle is Ava, a 13 year old that can heal people with the touch of her hands. Her secret is revealed when she heals her best friend, Wash, and their town is over run by people who want to exploit her talent. The pr...
At first he thought of reaching for his shotgun, but then he remembered that Lucille had made him sell it years ago on account of an incident involving a traveling preacher and an argument having to do with hunting dogs. “Can I help you?” Harold said, squinting in the sunlight—light which only ma...
The sound of a low, snuffling growl. The sharp intake of air as a large dark snout sniffed at the bottom of the door. Her father—tall and wide, with skin as dark as blindness—was there with the shotgun, easing up to the front window above the couch, craning his neck to get...
At first he thought of reaching for his shotgun, but then he remembered that Lucille had made him sell it years ago on account of an incident involving a traveling preacher and an argument having to do with hunting dogs.“Can I help you?” Harold said, squinting in the sunlight—light which only mad...