Doomed

by Chuck Palahniuk
329 pgs  (Madison Spencer series #2)

In Doomed, Chuck Palahniuk inexplicably returns to the story of Maddy Spencer, the 13-year-old dead girl who woke up in Hell in Damned. She's now been cast of of Hell by Satan to wander Earth in a state of
purgatory.

As she travels the earth, visiting places where pivotal events from her life occurred, we learn more about the privileged, chaotic life she once had, and it's revealed what she did to warrant being sent to Hell in the first place. She haunts her celebrity parents, the former atheists who now run a cult based on a phone call they received from Maddy while in Hell.

But there's a reason Maddy has been consigned to Purgatory, and it's not just because Satan is sick and tired of her (and I can't blame him). She may hold the key to the eventual end of the world.

I don't have anything good to say about Doomed. I felt like Palahniuk gave me a peek at what Hell is like. Thankfully, it came to an end on page 329.

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆