
The Remaking
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Narrated by:
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Corey Allen
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Morgan Hallett
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Suzy Jackson
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Clay McLeod Chapman
Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every 20 years - with terrifying results.
Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot's Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them - until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night. Ella Louise's burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses.
Their story will take the shape of an urban legend as it's told around a campfire by a man forever marked by his boyhood encounters with Jessica. Decades later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a '70s horror movie inspired by the Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek. Amber's experiences on that set and its meta-remake in the '90s will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt.
Amber's best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a true-crime investigator tracks her down to interview her for his popular podcast. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her - or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again? And again. And again....
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The third act dragged on and fell flat. And the fourth??? Ooof. Went way off the rails and the only worse than the point Twist, was the sanctimonious and insanity boring journalist that served as the long overdue nail in the coffin to this gothic bore.
This was great!!!…. Until it wasn’t :/
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Lots of cultural references
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Knowing the source material for this story about stories adds an additional layer to the author's exploration of why some stories capture our imagination and need to be retold. It also adds to the meta-ness of a book that calls into question what happens when girls' and women's stories are told by men, as the author himself is a man retelling the story of the Fords' deaths.
Based on the blurb, I was worried that this book would be too convoluted to follow, but it's not. Structurally, the book is organized like a sonata; each iteration of the original story is like the recapitulation, calling back to the beginning, yet moving the piece forward. I know a lot of the reviewers complained about the amount of repetition in the book, but the the repetition is the point. The Remaking is not just about the way stories evolve with each obsessive, cyclical retelling, but also how that same repetition plagues victims of historical and generational trauma.
Based on a True Story
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Dissapointing Ending
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I was intrigued!
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Our main character absolutely does nothing to help herself. She’s so pessimistic it becomes annoying. Again lots of repetitive descriptions and feelings. She tells you why she did something then she tells you a few min later again why she did something and how it feels. Anyway… I found myself not enjoying it but I kept thinking there was going to be some sort of payoff at the end…and there wasn’t. Just more unlikable characters. Especially the guy at the very end…super jerk.
The actual ghost story or lore they used was cool…. I don’t know… this book was no good.
The repetition of words feelings and descriptions.
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Great concept. Redundant narrative.
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Well Done But Missing Something
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You can imagine as the story progresses over the decades and the hints over the timelines are a nice touch also, the original ghost story itself it’s good enough to sound real. Do have to say that I felt like something was missing by the end of it but still a good book overall
The performance are good. And I would recommend the book overall
Overall a good ghost story
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Amazing visuals & Storytelling
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