![]() ![]() With themes of rejection, loss, fear, friendship, rage, hate and love, the characters all feel very real. Point Pleasant does not only offer skin crinkling goose-bumps, but it also highlights present-day issues. But the cops are the least of Ben’s problems when he digs deeper into the legendary monster that has been making a home in Point Pleasant longer than Ben imagines. Ben runs into trouble with the new big, badass bully of a sheriff. Only, the town that is “mighty pleased to have you” does not immediately welcome Ben Wisehart back so easily. After some thinking, Ben decides to return to his roots, back to the home he last saw on his rearview mirror thirteen years ago. Ben is now a thirty-three-year old famous horror writer living in Boston under the pseudonym of Preston James. ![]() ![]() The story starts off in the middle of a hauntingly suspenseful action flashback with the twelve-year-old version of these boys, until it cuts back to Ben’s present day narration. The two boys become best friends throughout their childhood and ultimately become like brothers by the age of twenty. In this small mysterious town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia-the one that’s still trying to show up on the maps-were born Ben Wisehart and Nicolas Nolan on the very same day. There are only a few certain things I’ve found in this world that I’ve grown to love profoundly. ![]()
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