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by Peter Clines (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 4,707 ratings
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Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches.

There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment.

Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much.

At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s.

Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends.

...or the end of everything.
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Peter Clines grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and--inspired by comic books, Star Wars, and Saturday morning cartoons--started writing at the age of eight with his first epic novel, LIZARD MEN FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. He made his first writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper, and at the age of nineteen he completed his quadruple-PhD studies in English literature, archaeology, quantum physics, and interpretive dance. In 2008, while surfing Hawaii's Keauwaula Beach, he thought up a viable way to maintain cold fusion that would also solve world hunger, but forgot all about it when he ran into actress Yvonne Strahvorski back on the beach and she offered to buy him a drink. He was the inspiration for both the epic poem "Beowulf" and the motion picture -Raiders of the Lost Ark-, and is single-handedly responsible for repelling the Martian Invasion of 1938 that occurred in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Eleven sonnets he wrote to impress a girl in high school were all later found and attributed to Shakespeare. He is the author of numerous short stories, EX-HEROES, EX-PATRIOTS, --14--, THE EERIE ADVENTURES OF THE LYCANTHROPE ROBINSON CRUSOE, and an as-yet-undiscovered Dead Sea Scroll. There is compelling evidence that he is, in fact, the Lindbergh baby.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YSZ17KB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kavach Press (6 Oct. 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2149 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
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Peter Clines is the New York Times bestselling author of PARADOX BOUND, and also TERMINUS, DEAD MOON, the acclaimed -14-, the EX-HEROES series, THE EERIE ADVENTURES OF THE LYCANTHROPE ROBINSON CRUSOE, numerous short stories--several of them collected in DEAD MEN CAN'T COMPLAIN AND OTHER STORIES--and an as-yet-undiscovered Dead Sea Scroll.

He made his first writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper, and at the age of nineteen he completed his quadruple-PhD studies in English literature, archaeology, quantum physics, and interpretive dance. He was the inspiration for both the epic poem "Beowulf" and the motion picture RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and is single-handedly responsible for repelling the Martian Invasion of 1938 that occurred in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Eleven sonnets he wrote to impress a girl in high school were all later found and attributed to Shakespeare

There is compelling evidence that he is, in fact, the Lindbergh baby.

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Customers find the plot interesting and believable, with just enough pseudoscience to be endearing. They also describe the pacing as superior and well-paced. Readers also praise the great characters and humor, with romance, tragedy, and comedy thrown in for good measure.

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Customers find the plot interesting, gripping, and addictive. They also say the storyline is unexpected, a great feat of imagination, and clever. Readers also mention that the book has just enough pseudoscience to be believable without becoming nerdy or boring.

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Customers find the pacing of the book superior, with many slow-burning set-ups. They also appreciate the bizarre plot events.

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Gioscatman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! very hollywood and easy to watch if one day comes to the big screen!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012
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Peter Clines cant be saying now to be a newbie, he already has several books, all by permutted press, that are quite good, easy to read and captivating. the EX series is great, a very nice mix of zoombie land and super heroes that are quite human at core (waiting for the third release!) and this 14, a quite fresh new book.
as most of his books, they are in los Angeles.
14 is about new friends, the meaning of one own life or purpose in life and the day to day difficulties that turn to be more important and significant than just day to day living.
this book is fast, you can read it in a couple of days, characters are well developed and the story is quite fascinating and intriguing at least until the last chapters where the book becomes a bit more obvious.
I would definetly reccomend it! nice mixture between Lost in an appartment building, Men in Black, FRIENDS and the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy with a bit of Narnia...
It could make an excellent movie as the book is quite visual. no doubt someone intelligent around might transform it into a movie...opening of room 14, although little explained (some more feasable scientific theories would have been nice) is quite surprising and nice!
I would also reccomend the EX series from peter clines.
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KevinF
4.0 out of 5 stars Don’t expect your usual haunted apartment story here.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2015
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I mostly read in bed and I found myself incapable of putting 14 down some nights until I was bleary eyed with sleep. 14 by Peter Clines is a page turning mystery/horror hybrid – with humour, but don’t expect your usual haunted apartment story here. Well… it is a bit of that, but it’s a whole lot more as well.

Nate Tucker, a data in-putter, is on the lookout for an apartment he can afford and he finds the perfect one very quickly. But he’s warned by the previous tenant that it “has an odd vibe to it.” Nevertheless Nate moves in and meets his new neighbours, an eclectic lot who socialise over beers on Friday evenings on the roof garden. Each apartment seems to harbour some peculiarity so, driven on by Nates curiosity, the other tenants are soon resolved to uncovering the mysteries of their block. Unfortunately, they need to work discreetly under the nose of Oskar, the decent but vigilant apartment caretaker, who doesn’t treat meddlers within his building too kindly.

What captivated me with this novel was the depth of the enigma that began to unfold as their surreptitious investigations uncovered puzzle after intriguing puzzle.

However, about three quarters of the way through, just as everything is gearing up for the final sequence, the tone of the book changed from gripping mystery to action. This was good too, but not as good as the first part of the book. But all in all 14 is a most enjoyable and interesting novel.
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sepeh
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary and fun wrapped in a mystery
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2016
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If you combine Lost, with a smattering of Goonies, add a dash of X-Files, a helping of Lovecraftian horror and a garnish of Hitchcock then that's not even close to explaining how great this book is. The key characters are rich with description and a mystery themselves as well as the story. The book really hooks you and I read well in to the night to finish it. Unlike some mysteries you do get answers with a reveal in room 14 that I just did not see coming, hence the title I guess. Ok there are a couple of weak characters that dont really seem to add much but thats really minor in an otherwise fabulous story loaded with twists and turns, plus a few laugh out loud moments. The book really does stand well on its own and doesn't really need a sequel....maybe a prequel. Its rare for me to give 5 stars but this really deserves it. If you like Charles Stross Laundry series then I think this is in the same vein and easily equal or better.
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Rusty
3.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraft meets Lost
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2021
14 is an entertaining mystery-thriller that could best be described as Lost meets Friends, meets steampunk Lovecraft. The mystery element is most reminiscent of the TV show Lost, but unlike in that show most of the mysteries are solved, or at the very least go somewhere. They aren't just mysteries for the sake of it. There's also a certain level of plausibility, relativity speaking, and the twists and reveals aren't as predictable or nonsensical as they were in Lost.

It's genuinely enjoyable following our protagonist Nate and his likeable, if somewhat shallow neighbours, as they unravel the mysteries of the unusual building that they all call home. That's not to say that all the reveals and puzzles are satisfying or even properly explained. Like the characters in the story there's a lack of depth to this mystery. The characters discover something, they do a bit of exploring, come up with a solution and then move on. There's an element of coming full circle, with everyone being right back at where they started.

That was perhaps my biggest problem with 14, it ultimately comes across as a fairly pointless exercise. There's only a "plot" because of a mistake made by one of the characters. It's about solving a mystery that didn't need solving and I found that to be fairly unsatisfying, despite the individual elements of the mystery being fairly intriguing. There's also the sense that the logic and science-fiction elements of the story wouldn't stand up to much scrutiny, just like in Lost. I also found it rather jaaring that until Nate turns up, none of the other tenants in the building have bothered to investigate much. We're constantly told that that's because he's the leader of the group, but his leadership qualities don't come across very well in the writing; Nate's rather a blank slate. As I've said, the other characters are fairly shallow stereotypes, but at least none of them grated and they all had unique traits that at least added variety. I just didn't care overly much about any of them, even though Ray Porter's excellent narration does help bring them all to life that little bit more.

I'd still recommend this to those people that are into sci-fi mystery stories, if only for the turn the book takes towards the end, when the Lovecraftian weirdness really ramps up.
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M. van Driel
4.0 out of 5 stars Lost meets Lovecraft
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 15 December 2020
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A fun romp with great twists and puzzles. Yes, the characters are a bit one note, but it’s well written and often very funny.
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doina tiniche
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!!
Reviewed in Canada on 12 July 2018
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Good plot, suspense, very well written. My only complain is that the pages kelp falling out of the book. I love books, I handle them with care. I do not know if I can get a replacement. I will try.
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doina tiniche
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!!
Reviewed in Canada on 12 July 2018
Good plot, suspense, very well written. My only complain is that the pages kelp falling out of the book. I love books, I handle them with care. I do not know if I can get a replacement. I will try.
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Cliente Amazon
3.0 out of 5 stars Strong first half... (Mild spoiler warning)
Reviewed in Spain on 24 May 2019
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I was really enjoying the mystery surrounding the main plot point of this novel (namely, the Kavach Building) and the strange and eerie goings-on... Then the novel took a COMPLETE 180 degree turn, it kind of baffled me as to what this novel was meaning to be... the first "half" is played fairly straight and all of a sudden the novel goes bat-s**t insane with no character really questioning anything beyond a throwaway WTF line... It became a B Movie all too quickly... Fairly enjoyable but not great
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Diego
4.0 out of 5 stars Divertido y algo inesperado
Reviewed in Mexico on 14 October 2016
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Es una lastima que aún no se encuentre en español este libro, ni en digital ni en físico. Sobretodo

Sin ser una obra literaria merecedora de todos los premios, el libro resulta ser un viaje de misterios y descubrimientos bastante entretenido, digno de dedicarle el tiempo que necesita. La primera mitad de la obra se desarrolla de manera semi lenta, introduciendo personajes e interrogantes, pero la segunda parte se comporta como el rápido descenso de una montaña rusa.
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Hannibal0020
5.0 out of 5 stars Clines You've Done it Again
Reviewed in the United States on 4 June 2015
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To the uninitiated, Peter Clines is the author of the Ex-Heroes series; a collection of books that features a close-knit group of superheroes fighting to save the last bastions of humanity against the seemingly endless hordes of the zombie apocalypse. It’s silly, over-the-top, exciting, self-referential, and I simply can’t get enough of it. Yet as much as I love the Ex-Heroes series and eagerly await the newest release, it’s always refreshing for both the authors, and their readers to take a step in another direction; usually via a new stand-alone book or a completely new series altogether. This is the case with 14, a stand-alone novel which allows Clines to further illustrate all of his artistic insanity in completely new ways; while at the same time, not being bound by the creative restraints of his previous and ongoing works. What follows is a book that feels different enough so that it doesn’t feel like a retread of his past successes, yet familiar in the manner that it captures both of Clines’s signature self-referential pop-culture humor, and his expertize at crafting surreal stories with captivatingly bizarre scenarios. In other words, 14 will please both fans of Ex-Heroes, and newcomers who have yet to bear witness to the madman himself.

One of the most significant aspects of 14 that effectively lingered with me throughout my time with it was the unnerving feeling of vagueness that Clines illustrates through both the book’s premise and his overall delivery. Between the book’s minimalistic synopsis, as well as raving reviews claiming it’s an “apocalyptic” tale combined with the surrealism of Lost; there’s a greater of sense of wonder and mysticism that really serves to draw the reader into the book’s world; far more so than the average by-the-numbers mystery novel. Throughout the book’s entirety, there’s always a larger mystery at the forefront that’s constantly prodding the reader forward into the next chapter, with each new bizarre clue and revelation adding even more questions than answers to the bigger picture. Don’t be surprised if you start becoming just as obsessed as the book’s characters in their mad pursuit at discovering the truth behind the Kavach building. Who made it, and why is it here? These questions will hound you till the book’s climax, which concludes with a payoff that’s absolutely satisfying.

Character-wise, 14 portrays a vastly different kind of cast than the ones found in Clines’s previous works. Whereas Ex-Heroes showcased a cast of larger-than-life superheroes, complete with incredible abilities and feats; 14 takes a far more subtle approach by illustrating a group of relatable everymen who are just looking to get by in life by scraping together whatever measly living they can get their hands on. However, their fates are intertwined when they take it upon themselves to uncover the mysteries behind the enigmatic Kavach building which they’ve all found themselves residing in. This ultimately leads them into a larger-than-life scenario that dwarfs anything they could have ever imagined. A potential theme Clines may be pushing here could be the unity found in tightly-woven communities, specifically ones in low-income areas. These characters, each of whom is characterized with vastly differing personalities, lifestyles, aspirations, and skillsets, are all united by a common objective; and in doing so, learn to rely and appreciate one another through their efforts and hardships. Intentional or not, it was a subtle, yet noble touch on Clines behalf through the way he illustrated the difficulties of living on a low-income, but also the companionship that forms when a group learns to rely and place their trust in one another.

14 is another great read from one of my favorite authors. It’s a very different kind of book when juxtaposed with his previous works and that’s perfectly okay; it’s always great to see authors flex their creative muscles and show us just how versatile they can be when the creative shackles of their previous works are lifted. As I applauded beforehand, the overwhelming sense of vagueness that pushes the plot into unknown territory is one of 14’s greatest assets, since it continuously pulls the reader in and doesn’t let go until the final page. The characters, while not as memorable as the cast from Ex-Heroes, are still immensely likable and really gel together as a team as the story progresses. Overall, 14 is a much longer and more methodical book than his Ex-Heroes series. Rather than sit you down and crank the insanity meter up to twenty as he has done many times in the past; Clines has instead presented us with a mystery novel that is brilliantly paced, addicting to read, and one that fans of his work can easily identify as all his own.
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