Lost Boys: A Novel
Mar 2024 · Harper Collins
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About this ebook
"Affecting, genuine, poignant, uplifting: a limpid, beautifully orchestrated" thriller about a family's struggle with evil from a New York Times–bestseller ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, life for eight-year-old Stevie is an unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself—and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil . . . and it's coming for Stevie next.
"For Stephen King fans and those who like their suspense mixed with the supernatural." — Library Journal
"Absorbing . . . the pull of family drama with an overlayer of rising supsense." — Publishers Weekly
For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, life for eight-year-old Stevie is an unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself—and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil . . . and it's coming for Stevie next.
"For Stephen King fans and those who like their suspense mixed with the supernatural." — Library Journal
"Absorbing . . . the pull of family drama with an overlayer of rising supsense." — Publishers Weekly
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3.8
16 reviews
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February 1, 2015
This story is a slow read...OSC spends a great deal of time on the smallest of details but as you get futher along in the story...you grow to appreciate his great care for detail...the family is very sweet....and the end is worth the wait and emotion
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Stéphane Beaudet
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February 18, 2016
I love OSC Style of writing but the story leaves a lot to desire, the whole book gives you questions that are never answered, even at the end.
2 people found this review helpful
Steve Chavez
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September 1, 2015
This was the first book i read by OSC and have been hooked on his writing since then!
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About the author
Orson Scott Card has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards for his works of speculative fiction, among them the Ender series and The Tales of Alvin Maker. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife and four children.
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