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Feb 25, 2014KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I'm not surprised that there are so many TV series adapting this book, or at least the idea. It's a neat one. People start coming back from the dead with no real rhyme or reason. The government first is trying to deal with the influx of people (there is an international agency dedicated to dealing with these people and getting them home if they're wanted) and then, naturally, people go a little crazy. We stick with Harold whose eight year old son, dead since 1966, is one of the Returned. At first, when the events start happening, his wife thinks these people as devils while Harold doesn't really have an opinion. Once Jacob appears at their door Lucille embraces her son while Harold compares him to a photocopy of a person he once knew. There's a lot of questions and not a whole lot of answers and that's whether we're talking about the Returned or the responses to them. There are people who don't want to meet the Returned, people who want them dead again, and people who just want to cherish them for whatever time they have them back for. It's a very human story and reminds us of that all important fact that we all tend to not think about: no one lives forever and we should cherish whatever time we have with those we love in whatever form we have it.