The Book of Accidents: A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER โข A family returns to their hometownโand to the dark past that haunts them stillโin this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST โข โThe dread, the scope, the pacing, the turnsโI havenโt felt all this so intensely since The Shining.โโStephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library, Library Journal
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive fatherโand has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldnโt haveโand is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.
And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.
This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the familyโand perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST โข โThe dread, the scope, the pacing, the turnsโI havenโt felt all this so intensely since The Shining.โโStephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library, Library Journal
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive fatherโand has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldnโt haveโand is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.
And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.
This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the familyโand perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.
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Wendig does a great job of weaving together literal and figurative different worlds. The characters are easy to invest in. However, I felt like the book was a little too long.
This book was.... interesting to say the least. While it took a while to get going it also took a while to end. By the last 100 to 150 pages I was just wanting it to conclude and to be able to go onto another read. While it wasn't bad as a whole I felt the author drug out a lot of it and that many parts did not add to the story at all
Interesting. I love the concept, Iโm not sure that Iโm in love with the authors writing style, but nonetheless, I finished it and enjoyed it.
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๐๐๐ ๐น๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ค - Cแดดแตแดแดท Wแดฑแดบแดฐแดตแดณ
โญ ( 5 / 10 )
I dunno. I dont know what posessed me to pick it up, what said, yeah this one read this one. I dont read the book summaries. I'm like the people who don't watch trailers they just go. I'm not one of THOSE people. I'll watch all the trailers. Anyway! I'm assuming this cover looking like Texas Chain Saw house in the horror section. I'm in. That's the only reason I can think of.
I am however, glad I did, but I only gave it 3 1/2 stars. Yes, BUT thats because this is one of those books that gives me Author wasn't sure how to finish, kept rolling out more to fill in some plot holes. But sometimes doing that can be a bit much.
Nathan lived in a small rural town growing up with an abusive papa and Maddie grew up in the same town making dolls and creepy sculptures. The two move out of the town get married and decide to move back with their son Oliver but theres something sinister inside and outside of their small town. But does it have anything to do with Nate and Maddie and who is this hillbilly new boy thay Oliver's been hanging out with?! And what's this book that they just so happened to stumble upon
First! The book caught me in page one. And then proceeded to keep me in a choke hold until the last couple of chapters where we were trying to wrap up. I was thoroughly confused, a little creeped reading in my room while home alone. But it was great. It gave me a lot of Stephen King vibes, definitely It and a bit of one particular Avenger's movie and I dug all of it wrapped in a bow and how it was strung together. Seriously, what is work and real life and why do I need it? Getting in my way.
Pษชแดแด แดสษชs แดแด ษชา สแดแด สษชแดแด: Stephen King's It. Avengers, Kindred, 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ: Death, Domestic Violence, Murder, Bullying, Animal death, Mass/School Shooting, Genocide, suicidal thoughts... All the warnings. They are brief and I mean BRIEFLY touched on and not graphic
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