Dwellers: A Novel
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award
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Publisher Description
This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away.
The rules are strict and absolute:
Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit.
Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again.
Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever.
But what happens when, in escaping your old life by stealing a new one, you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Cousins from a clan of "dwellers"--people who inhabit the bodies and lives of others--become brothers when they take over the bodies of Jonah and Louis. An injury forces them to remain in the brothers' house, where they discover that the basement holds a dead body! As old and new secrets come to light, it becomes clear that every action always has consequences.
Fans of Richard Morgan, Adam Silvera, and Blake Crouch's speculative fiction will adore Eliza Victoria's action-packed supernatural mystery. Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, Dwellers is the urban fantasy novel that you won't want to miss!
Winner of the prestigious Philippine National Book Award!
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Philippine National Book Award winner Victoria (Lambana) mixes magic and mystery in this addictive but uneven urban fantasy. In contemporary Manila, two unnamed "dwellers," entities that can possess bodies at will, take over the corpses—and lives—of brothers Jonah and Louis, both professors, following a fatal car crash. Then they find a woman's rotting body in a basement freezer of the brothers' house, and worry they may have chosen wrong. As neither retains any of the original Jonah or Louis's memories, they have no leads on the murder—until a chance encounter with their neighbor, Ivy, helps them piece together what might have happened, and how their new identities may have been involved. This mystery propels the plot as the new Jonah and Louis investigate, with the help of former students who know them as favorite professors, but the tight focus on the whodunit leaves little room for much else, including any significant character development or worldbuilding. Still, readers who don't mind the hazily constructed world will find this a fast-paced page-turner.
