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Ex-Purgatory
Ex-Purgatory: A Novel | Peter Clines
The fourth novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series. When hes 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 hes 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 deadand in which George is no longer a glorified janitor, but one of humanitys last heroes. Her tale sounds like madness, of course. But as Georges dreams and his waking life begin bleeding together, he starts to wonderwhich is the real world, and which is just fantasy?
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JLaurenceCohen
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I loved this book and this whole series. Clines finds inventive ways to neutralize his heroes' powers. My only complaint is that Danielle's character doesn't get as much development as she could.

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JLaurenceCohen
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Clines goes full Christopher Nolan in this one

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JLaurenceCohen
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Clines throws a curve ball with this. The story opens with our heroes in some kind of hallucination not remembering who they are.

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Creme_de_la_them
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This was my favorite of the series so far. The imagery was really well done and would be great as a movie. Clines does a good job of addressing the “how” associated with the plot and ties it up surprisingly well. More superheroes and zombies, please!

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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The Ex-Heroes series follows a group of superheroes protecting the few remaining Los Angeles residents after the zombie apocalypse. They have turned the Paramount Studios lot into a fortress they call the Mount, and have built a pocket of civilization surrounded by thousands of hungry “ex-humans”.

Even though book 4 essentially had the same plot as the “Normal Again” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer it was still pretty good.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk For the record that‘s Ex-Heroes = pretty good, Ex-Patriots = pretty good, Ex-Communication = meh, Ex-Purgatory = pretty good. 6y
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leeloo13
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Superheroes + zombies = plain 'ole fun. I like Peter Clines series because he combined these two elements in such a gritty, realistic way, as the heroes are flawed and the world is a grim place to exist in. Yet there is also still some humor and typical zombie bashing to keep the story from being too dark.

Louise "Typical zombie bashing" ?! Welcome to Litsy! 7y
tpixie Welcome to Litsy!! 7y
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