the returned

 Send It Back Author: Jason Mott I’m seriously considering a new policy of avoiding all buzzed-about books: they never live up to the hype, and more often than not, I feel like I didn’t even read the same book as the one everyone else is raving about. My streak continued with Jason Mott’s debut novel The Returned, where an intriguing premise — dead people start randomly showing up, apparently alive again, all over the planet — fizzled out into a heavy-handed, strangely unaffecting morality play. Set in the present, the story begins as Harold and Lucille Hargrave open their door [...]