{"id":7819,"date":"2016-04-27T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2016-04-27T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:09:04","slug":"review-the-damned-by-andrew-pyper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-the-damned-by-andrew-pyper\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;The Damned&#039; by Andrew Pyper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Damned-Novel-Andrew-Pyper\/dp\/1476755116\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1460064732&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+damned+andrew+pyper\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7820\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/the-damned-9781476755120_lg-1-197x300.jpg?resize=197%2C300\" alt=\"the-damned-9781476755120_lg-1\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>The Damned\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Andrew Pyper<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Simon &amp; Schuster\u00a0(February 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>304\u00a0pages; $21.24 hardcover; $13.82 paperback; $11.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanreitan\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Reitan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canadian author Andrew Pyper began his career by writing \u201cliterary thrillers\u201d but now he\u2019s been focusing his time on some amazing works of \u201cliterary horror\u201d such as his latest, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Damned<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twins Danny and Ashleigh Orchard are polar opposites. While Danny is timid and kind, Ashleigh is overpowering and downright evil. Ash harbors early psychotic tendencies and terrorizes anyone near her. A house fire ultimately claims her life and almost takes Danny\u2019s as well.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an adult, Danny finds stardom after his bestseller is released, chronicling his near-death experience and encounter with the afterlife. While things seem to be going good for Danny with his success and recent marriage, he\u2019s still plagued with events from his childhood, and the fact that Ash has haunted him for 20 years. Ash never accepted being dead while Danny lived and thrived. While her ghost played a minor character in Danny\u2019s life through the years, it\u2019s now back with a vengeance and wants his life as well. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the hope that investigating Ash\u2019s mysterious death will calm her vengeful ghost, Danny travels to his childhood home, to the place of her murder, only to uncover more chaos, death and more questions than answers. In order to protect the ones he loves from Ash\u2019s terror, Danny must enter a place where the dead meet the living, a dream-like afterlife where an ultimate showdown between the two twins takes place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Damned<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a fantastic and original story with plenty of scares. Andrew Pyper writes with the whimsical lyricism of Jonathan Carroll and the flowing narrative of Stephen King.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Damned\u00a0by\u00a0Andrew Pyper Simon &amp; Schuster\u00a0(February 2015) 304\u00a0pages; $21.24 hardcover; $13.82 paperback; $11.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Jonathan Reitan Canadian author Andrew Pyper began his career by writing \u201cliterary thrillers\u201d but now he\u2019s been focusing his time on some amazing works of \u201cliterary horror\u201d such as his latest, The Damned. 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