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Review: The Return

User Review - Chris - Goodreads

Oh the potential, and oh the disapointment. This book began with a great premise about a man who falls asleep on a grave and wakes up with the face of the man buried in said grave, but that's about ... Read full review

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User Review - Emily - Goodreads

Hallelujah! I finally finished reading this book. Hard to believe it was only 193 pages - it seemed to go on for hundreds of pages. The basic premise of the novel was engaging, but the story itself ... Read full review

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User Review - Brent - Goodreads

some of the descriptions were so flouncy as to lose the impact of important plot twists, but overall good gothic imagery. Read full review

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User Review - Mark Carver - Goodreads

An exhausting read - cynical, nihilistic, and bleak. Beautifully descriptive and atmospheric but almost smothering in its gloom, and a bit meandering and aimless at times. This book requires a very specific frame of mind and mood to be enjoyed. Read full review

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User Review - Lucy - Goodreads

I like to read books that characters in other books are reading. In Sir Hugh Walpole's 'The Secret City', the narrator refers to 'The Return' several times, including quotes, and praises it ... Read full review

Review: The Return

User Review - Goodreads

You wouldn't think a story about a guy falling asleep in a graveyard and awakening with the face of a dead man instead of his own would be so ... tedious. but The Return mostly involves our hero ...

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User Review - Don - Goodreads

I thought this would be a good throwback macabre horror novel. After getting in to the story, I found it moved very slowly and the dialog was majorly lofty and bloated. This kind of cerebral introspective could appeal to some, just not my bag - hence the 1-star. Read full review

Review: The Return

User Review - Goodreads

"What the hell?" I obviously either have a much greater imagination than the average reader or was so bored by the lack of plot in this book that I invented a completely different scenario than anyone ...