Ex-Purgatory
- 354
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Ex-Purgatory” is an entertaining, puzzle-driven fourth entry in Peter Clines’s “Ex-Heroes” series, mixing superheroes and zombies. George Bailey, an ordinary Los Angeles handyman, dreams of flying and fighting monsters until a girl in a wheelchair tells him of a world overrun by the dead. Some readers enjoy the mystery and its late twists, while others find it predictable and the heroes closer to caricatures. It will please readers of the earlier books.
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About the book
The fourth novel in Peter Clines' bestselling 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?
Reading order · Ex-Heroes
Full order & progress →- Ex-HeroesStart hereEx-Heroes–Not ranked yet
- Ex-PatriotsEx-Patriots–Not ranked yet
- Ex-Communication
7.67.6 / 10 - Ex-PurgatoryThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - Ex-IsleEx-Isle–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 50 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 25% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 50 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ex-Purgatory?
It has 354 pages — shorter than 68% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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