Point Pleasant
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.95 (725 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1492121606 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-01-24 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ben left Point Pleasant at the age of twenty. Thirteen years after abandoning his home, he returns to the town to investigate the apparent reemergence of the terrifying creature responsible for his childhood nightmares. Ben Wisehart grew up in the idyllic town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. An early encounter with the supernatural shaped his worldview and served as the catalyst for his career as a bestselling horror writer. In Point Pleasant, Ben is confronted not only by the town’s resident monster, the Mothman, but also by his former best friend, Sheriff Nicholas Nolan. Together, Ben and Nicholas uncover the mystery of the monster in the woods and discover that the ghosts that haunt us are sometimes mad
Simply fantastic LIMommy I have read Point Pleasant three times in the last year and each time I fall of Benjamin and Nicolas love story set within a super creepy horror story. Their faults and love make them endearingly real characters. This is not a perfect love story but a realistic story of love in a world of monsters and angels. I wish the author had more stories like this because I would read them all. Do yourself a favor and read this book, more than once.. One of the best books I've read in a long time I'm the type of person who likes honest, haunting works of literature. It isn't that easy to find books which meet this criteria, however, that still have a great plot, characters so deep that they could be real, and a well-established history within the book.Point Pleasant has all of these.Ms. Wood created an eerily-similar universe to our own, to play with a legend that may be familiar to some and completely new to others. The Mothman is the ever-present sh. "Point Pleasant - Well-crafted, moving, and at times terrifying (in a good way!)" according to Duma Remiel. Although a fan of horror, the supernatural, and crytozoology, just any story with these elements would not be enough to please me without having the most important element for a good story: character development. What I love about Jen Archer Wood's Point Pleasant is that it is rooted in character development and the relationships between the characters she's created.Ben is the kind of character that digs inside you and settles. In a time when it seems like pr
She makes great pancakes too. She is an admirer of the southern gothic tradition, American urban legends, and the scent of rain on rusty screen doors. Jen Archer Wood is a writer.
She makes great pancakes too. About the Author Jen Archer Wood is a writer. She is an admirer of the southern gothic tradition, American urban legends, and the scent of rain on rusty screen doors.