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  • Written by: Peter Clines
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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Ex-Purgatory

Written by: Peter Clines
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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The fourth novel in Peter Clines' best-selling Ex series.

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?

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This is a must listen undead horror sci-fi series.

Not only has Peter Clines wrote a series full of evil walking dead, he injected it with bad guy smashing science fiction super heros. The series has insanely mad scientists and armies lead by pure evil and good guys who build hulking evil stopping mechanical juggernauts. All of what Peter wrote wouldn't have the imagination grabbing power without the story telling genius of Jay Snyder.
I really enjoyed this series.
please forgive my bad grammar and even worse spelling.

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Probably the weakest book of the series

I found my self waiting for them to get to point a lot. Still a good series.

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Not quite at par....

Having read the prev 3 ex heroes books, this one has been my least favourite thus far. All the heros are present and accounted for as usual, but for the vast majority of the book they are all 'power-less' and trapped in 'purgatory'. It takes nearly half the book for the story to start to progress at a reasonable pace, but even then, i found it slow going. The ending was great in my opinion, it was just the journey that seemed to drag on a bit. If you have not read any of the other books, I DO NOT recommend that you start with this one; there are lots and lots of referrences to adventures in prev books, so do yourself a favor and start at the beginning. Also, all the previous stories have multiple narrators, which for the characters in this book is a definite must (or it could be i've just gotten too used to it being that way). But this one is done by Jay Snyder solo, which, for all the female characters just didnt do it for me personally. I felt it was a step backwards. Anyway, still a decent read for all you Ex Heros fans, just dont expect quite the same as prev ones. On to book 5!

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