(The Author’s Note made me cry as well!) I felt the ending was perfect. Mr. I felt the first 100 pages were very slow getting into, too much *stuff* that could have been left out, but by about pages 200 and on I was devouring this book, and cried at the end. One brief page showed Nazi soldiers that died in war, and returned to another war, only to die again. The majority of this novel focuses on the Hargraves and how they are handling the situation, but there’s also little snippets of other Returned that were very interesting.
Harold and Lucille Hargrave are well up in years when their 8 year old boy, Jacob, who drowned in the river, returns home. This book shows the varying reactions and emotions of citizens in Arcadia as they start to see their loved ones returning from the grave. What would you do, how would you react, if someone you love came back from the dead, locked in the time/age of when they died? Would you panic, and shut them out? Would you welcome them with open arms, just knowing it was really, truly, them? I would probably be freaked out at first, but I would want to cherish the moments that seemed like God giving me a fleeting second chance. People all over the world, returning from the dead, but not in a zombie like sense. The premise of this novel grabbed my attention immediately. He seems very cool, down-to-earth, and lives in the same state as I! Mott sent me an autographed copy, with a handwritten note inside also. I won this book thanks to Laura Kenyon over at Skipping Midnight ( when she hosted an interview of Jason Mott! Mr.
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