Ex-Purgatory: A Novel [Kindle Edition] Author: Peter Clines | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E2RZHI2 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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When he’s awake, George Bailey is just an ordinary man. Five days a week he coaxes his old Hyundai to life, curses the Los Angeles traffic, and clocks in at his job as a handyman at the local college.
But when he sleeps, George dreams of something more.
George dreams of flying. He dreams of fighting monsters. He dreams of a man made of pure lightning, an armored robot, a giant in an army uniform, a beautiful woman who moves like a ninja.
Then one day as he’s walking from one fix-it job to the next, a pale girl in a wheelchair tells George of another world, one in which civilization fell to a plague that animates the dead…and in which George is no longer a glorified janitor, but one of humanity’s last heroes.
Her tale sounds like madness, of course. But as George’s dreams and his waking life begin bleeding together, he starts to wonder—which is the real world, and which is just fantasy? Books with free ebook downloads available Download Ex-Purgatory: A Novel [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 1654 KB
- Print Length: 354 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0804136610
- Publisher: Broadway Books (January 14, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E2RZHI2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,397 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Ex-Purgatory is the fourth book in author Peter Clines' series about a small band of superheroes protecting a remnant of humanity from zombies in Los Angeles, California. While the premise sounds like the series could be cheesy, they're actually smartly-written novels that are as much character studies as urban fantasy action novels. Below are my thoughts on this book, and note that I do not give spoilers.
One of the problems with a continuing series starring the same characters, such as this one, is that it basically has to go one of two ways: either the monsters and protagonists have to become increasingly powerful relative to earlier books to up the stakes, or the protagonists remain relatively stable with regards to their abilities and the author develops interesting plot-lines to keep the reader involved. There isn't a right or wrong way to go, imho. In this series, the author goes with the latter approach. While reading the promotional blurb, I thought this book might be a prequel to the other three books, but it's not, it's an interesting plot line. :-)
At first, I was a bit thrown off by the pace and premise of the book, as it differs somewhat in style and format from his earlier books (for example, there are no flashback sequences that are somewhat prevalent in his other novels), but as the story progressed and I began to understand what was happening, it rapidly drew me deeply in. The story is still centered around George Bailey, aka The Mighty Dragon, aka St George, but the other main characters are also deeply involved, and as a bonus, you get to learn more about Stealth's background.
As typical in this series, the writing is excellent, the plot is hole-free, and the story includes helpings of humor and pathos.
CLASSIFICATION: Mixing zombies with superheroes in a desolate world, Peter Clines' Ex series is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead crossed with The Avengers (Marvel).
ANALYSIS: Peter Clines has to be admired, after three titles in the Ex series, he still knows how to keep this series fresh. I was a little skeptical as to how he would go ahead with this story considering the events of the last book but the blurb of the book was simply irresistible. It seemed to be taking the series in a new direction and I was curious to see where the author was taking the series and characters.
With this fourth volume, we begin in a world wherein George Bailey (St. George/The Mighty Dragon) is a simple janitor and not the superhero we know him to be. He has no inkling of his other life wherein we have met him and many others in a world overrun by zombies or Ex-humans as they are known. This world however has no such apocalypse happening to it, but there's a girl who call herself Madelyn Sorenson and sort of remembers a different world.
Madelyn frequently reminds George that this is not the world they are supposed to be in and this might be an alternate reality, which they need to get out of. Soon George finds out that there are others like Stealth, Zzzap, Freedom and Danielle (Cerebrus) who are also trapped in with him. What happens next and what is actually happening is the meat of the plot and the way they discover it is the icing on the cake for the readers. The author plants several nods to various famous SF works and several episodes from some epic SF shows in this one, and the story unfolds like a classical mystery, which adds to heightened tension throughout the story.
The basic story follows in the same "then" and "now" patterns of the previous books.
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