A Doomed Review

"Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller. 

The bestselling Damned chronicles Madison's journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn't over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. 

After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds to herself trapped in Purgatory-- or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she's invisible to everyone who's still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents' luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop's fetid men's room, in which...well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone.  

Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you."

Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk is a sequel to Damned which I also read, (A Damned Review).

I liked Doomed, but it didn't feel like a typical Palahniuk novel. It didn't have the tone I've gotten used to while reading his novels. It was funny, but not as funny as Snuff or Survivor and even Damned.

Doomed felt more like a prequel than a sequel. The storyline went back and forth between the past and the present. However most of the book took place in the past. Maddy spent most of the book talking about how she was doomed all along.

I didn't like much about Doomed, but there were some great funny metaphors. For example, the title was a metaphor about Maddy's whole life. 

When we first meet Maddy's Nana Minnie, I can relate. Maddie is saying she missed her nana while typing the violent opposite for her afterlife blog. I thought that was hilarious. It's something I definitely would do. I also liked how sometimes Maddy will say ctrl + alt + word that's like saying hashtags out loud.

As always, I don't want to give anything way in case you decided to read Doomed.

I liked Doomed, but it was nothing special compared to other Palahniuk novels. I was really excited to see read because I loved Damned so much. But I was a little disappointed at how unexciting it was. I would only recommend reading Doomed if you've read Damned.

I remember when I first starting reading Doomed, I had it laying on my desk, the light hit it and I saw this: 

I was never the same.