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'MAGNIFICENT' Alan Moore
'I COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN' Ron Howard
'CHILLING AND UTTERLY IMMERSIVE' M. R. Carey

It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.

Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.

Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed - until now.

'Fascinating, hilarious, disturbing, exciting and surprising as hell' Ron Howard, director of Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code

'Brilliantly paced, utterly compelling, I didn't have *a clue* what would happen' Toby Whithouse

'Super spooky and addictively written' Heat

'We fell hard for Jason Arnopp's whip-smart and impulsive thriller . . . meet your new favourite book' iBooks Store

'Wittier than the lovechild of Stephen Fry and Charlie Brooker, scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum' Sarah Lotz, author of The Three

'This is The Omen for the social media age' Chris Brookmyre

'Ingenious and funny . . . A magnificent millennial nightmare' Alan Moore

DISCOVER THIS YEAR'S MOST TALKED-ABOUT THRILLER - perfect for fans of Stephen King, Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk.

Look out for GHOSTER, the new razor-sharp supernatural thriller from Jason Arnopp

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Ingenious and funny . . . A magnificent millennial nightmare

Wow. Seriously hard to put down...Chilling and utterly immersive

This is The Omen for the social media age - Chris Brookmyre, author of the Jack Parlabane thrillers

Wittier than the lovechild of Stephen Fry and Charlie Brooker, scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum...Fast, furious, original and most importantly, terrifying

This is one of those books where I'm sad when I'm not reading it. It manages the rare feat of being both horrific and hilarious, which makes me insanely jealous of Arnopp and has me considering how to kill him and consume his mighty power - Chuck Wendig, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author

Tremendous . . . A cracking read

Original, clever, scary and funny...Jack Sparks manages all that and more. It kept me gripped and guessing from page one

Cracking fun and genuinely creepy - Rick O'Shea, radio presenter --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Prepare for the cleverest, most addictive thriller you will read this year. This is the story of the ill-fated Jack Sparks - a man who plays with fire, and pays the price . . . --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher : Orbit (3 March 2016)
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Monica

Scary stuff

Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2018

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Great book- hard to put down. Very well written and the pieces all fitted together. A good horror tale that was truly frightening. Highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading more from this author.

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Wow!

Reviewed in Australia on 7 October 2017

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I have no words. Just read it. Very hard to put down but sometimes out of pure fear I had to have a break.

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A comprehensively compelling read.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 October 2016

A pretty extraordinary story and very well written. Horror, but only in parts, it was a psychological thriller of the highest ilk.

Suspenseful and downright scary in at times, but it was also laced with humour which nicely balanced the darkness.

Jack is, basically, quite an annoying, egotistical, disrespectful prat, but as the story progressed I found myself strangely drawn to him and actually quite liking him by the end of the book.

The momentum and tension increases and builds to an horrifying climax. And just when you think it's over, something unexpected and even more unpleasant occurs.
Ironically, because the tale illuminates some of the less pleasant aspects of social media and our current tech centred world, I caught myself, on dozens of occasions, poking the book to highlight a passage or jot a note. I need to read paperback books more often. Apparently.

A book well worth reading, preferably in the daylight with other people in the house!
An author to note.
Highly recommended.

*Note: I won this via a Goodreads giveaway, for which I am very thankful as I may never have otherwise found this talented author. *

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But Sparks will suffer from an untimely death and this leaves some suspicious online fans suggesting that the writer had been a victim of foul play. This book pieces together “Sparks’” draft book ...

Reviewed in Australia on 6 October 2017

The Last Days of Jack Sparks boasts one unique and clever premise for a story. The book is written by British journalist and author, Jason Arnopp but is also presented as being the “final” book or epitaph by a controversial journalist and broadcaster named Jack Sparks. This is an unnerving and mysterious tale that throws up a lot of questions.
The story goes that Jack Sparks has carved out an illustrious career as a pop culture journalist and non-fiction author with the tales, Jack Sparks on Drugs and Jack Sparks on a Pogo Stick. Sparks has been labelled and lauded as a “rebel “and dismissed as a “hack”. He certainly has the ability to divide people and in some ways there seems to be a whiff in common between Sparks and the late Hunter S. Thompson. The two would make firm friends – if they were both still around.
It was with some trepidation that Sparks’ brother, Alistair learns about his brother’s latest work, Jack Sparks on the Supernatural. This all begins with Jack Sparks witnessing an exorcism. But he is also a disbelieving cynic who can’t control himself. His YouTube channel has a bizarre video uploaded to it and this could actually prove the existence of ghosts. But Sparks will suffer from an untimely death and this leaves some suspicious online fans suggesting that the writer had been a victim of foul play.
This book pieces together “Sparks’” draft book as well as interviews, emails and other material. This extra stuff shows that there is more than one side to the narrative and it will make the reader stop and question a few things, not least the veracity of Sparks’ own account. While the book starts off with a bang and it has a great idea, it does loose itself a little in the final act. The end does feature some slow pacing and some bizarre curveballs and some readers will find it hard investing time in such a disagreeable lead character.
Jason Arnopp’s debut novel is a quirky one boasting an excellent idea. The whole story is a refreshing take on the comedy thriller genre. Ultimately this is one creepy, weird and unsettling tale which is told in a clever way. Hopefully this is not the last you hear from Arnopp or Sparks because here, Arnopp proves he is bright spark indeed.

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Tiff Franks

Contains spoilers - The Devil and his minions really don't like being laughed at.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2016

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Jack Sparks, he's so rock n roll, you can't help but want him to be real and to be able to hang out with him. The fact that his ego is bigger than Texas doesn't hinder him, much. Until he gets the giggles at an exorcism. The Devil and his minions really don't like being laughed at.

Reading this book was like being on a rollercoaster in the dark. You know in some sense what you're getting yourself into but at the sametime you have no idea what's coming. Soon as this book hit my grubby little hands I knew it had to skip the "To Read" wait list (okay pile) and go right to the top. It was all I could do to not start reading it the day it arrived.

The book is full of creepiness, darkness and good old fashioned horror. As a fan of a perfect horror film this book was like heaven in print. The format of the book threw me at first, I hadn't expected the change in narrative between Jack and his brother. The fact that what I am reading from Jack's point of view is an unpublished piece of work that has been edited by his brother, with noted areas where facts are missing or wrong, is fantastic! It made me not want to put the book down even more. To me it was a new twist that worked well with the plot of the book.

The twist at the end of the book is pure genius as far as I'm concerned and leads you to not only make your own conclusions, real or the work of a madman, but also makes you wondering if there's going to be another book. I found myself wanting to clap at the end, the same way you do at the end of an amazing movie or gig. Or like the end of the best scary ride you've ever been on and you're full of adrenalin and that rush, where you shout AGAIN AGAIN and run to the back of the line to ride the ride again.

The fact that there's a website [...] just makes it all feel a bit more real. The only disappointment I had was that there was no video. The famous video is missing, which while disappointing is also probably a blessing since no video could match my own twisted, dark imagination.

Three months into the new year and I think I've found my top book of the year, so much so I might have to go back and read it again before the year is out.

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Gorgona

too much hype

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2018

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I think I disliked the book for the reasons others liked it.
First things first: Jack Sparks is such an unlikeable, obnoxious person (hope it isn't based on anyone real, that'd be the kind who elbows you out of the seat on the tube or assaults you in a pub) that I really hoped the devil will take him, and fast. One thing clear though: if you want your book character to be a nasty nonentity with big ego in place of anything else - call him Jack. If you want him to be "hip", add Sparks surname - and hey presto, you've got a revolting antihero some readers will want to see dying. By the time he became a bit better behaving, he was lost on me. Good riddance all the way. And because I hated the character and all he stands for, I didn't warm up to anything around him. Annoying thing is that an atheist is portrayed as such a horrible man. There aren't that many books about atheists, but this one sticks out like a sore thumb.
Second: I don't know about you, but I don't live on social media, so all references to it and all the hype were lost on me. Ok, it's some parody on "the modern age", but if I find something silly (like people being glued to their phones 24/7), then the parody on that falls flat too. I just don't want to know.
Third: I actually could predict a lot of turns, which usually rarely happens to me.
Forth: weird deaths and blood. Oh dear. What looks okeish on TV, after million times you watched it mind, reads very tired and lame in a book.
Fifth: language. For god's sake, it was written by an English dude, so why "walking out the door" when it is "walking out OF the door"??!! We get a lot of grating American stuff, so if you're English, please be a dear and write properly. Nope, it should be 2 stars instead, but I'll be kind.
Sixth: national stereotypes. Aussie lass is sooo relaxed, somewhat Asian - and as all Asians are into martial arts, of course, so she is a "combat" shost-buster; as an Asian she obviously lives in some uber modern "space", offers guests tea [how did he forgot sitting on a floor mat?] and just so very cool. American man, Astral, just HAD to be morbidly obese and eating all the time. True Brit Alistair is very "proper". Jack is as annoying as any Hackney-living hipster /'cool" person can be, and he is just the type who'd write for music magazines.
Finally, "time travel" stuff didn't help the plot.
The good bits were the description of a clip, some genuine rational thinking on Jack's part before he got his brains coked out completely in the second half of a book - the kind of questions the reader will ask as they go along.
So, after all these stereotypes, grotesque deaths, sweet idea to make a reader think "What if the Devil is real?" (like, really revolutionary groundbreaking and brave question, right?) all I'm thinking is "The real message is: "kids, don't do drugs" :))) and "Stay away from the Jacks of the world".

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Tetleynick

Where to Start?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2016

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Where to start? I really liked this book, but it is very hard to categorise it.
Is is a horror story?Yes. Is it a psychological thriller? Yes. Is it a commentary on the use of social media? Yes. Is it a comedy? Yes. Is it a story about vanity and ego/ Yes. This book had me laughing out loud in one minute and cringing in the next.
In many ways it is the last testimony of a very troubled man, but is this caused by a genuine supernatural experience or by other reasons?
I can fully understand the mixed reviews this has received but I definitely come out on loved it side.
The writing is crisp and somehow you feel a liking for Jack Sparks, a vain, egocentric coward. A Flashman for the digital age.
More than anything else, despite the incidents in the roller coaster last third (can't say anything without giving spoilers), this is a fun book and a great read. It is not a book that leaves you once have put it down

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CarlG

It rattled along happily for the first half but then it stumbled and ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2017

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It rattled along happily for the first half but then it stumbled and lurched to a hideous crash. At page 361 I just put it down and couldn't read another word. I just sat silent on the train rather than finish it. Harsh, I know, but it's the truth of my experience of this book. It has endless references to social media and seems to stumble over itself to appear current (albeit masked as the protagonist's endless need to fulfil his own ego) and the twist near the end had me eye-rolling in public.
The bit that really made me stop reading this book was the dialogue. There is a broad mix of English-speaking characters in the book (British, American and Australian) and the attempts to replicate the native sounds of each is laboured and off-target. Further, the characters often say things which are either out of context for the scene or just impossible to believe.

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Cribs

The last book I’ll read by this author.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2019

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Having read ‘Auto Rewind’ and very much enjoying it I went straight into this. Ignoring the cheesy title, and suspiciously cliche storyline I convinced myself it would be worth a go. This was a mistake. The story is convoluted, it’s characters one dimensional and the twist outright ridiculous. The protagonist is an unlikeable anti-hero who you really couldn’t care less about. Every sentence of his messed up narrative contradicts the last. It’s not completely void of intrigue and in fact begins quite promising, particularly as the different characters accounts teases the promise of a decent mystery but as the book tries to flesh out it’s crazy attempt at a twist the story becomes incredulous. The worst offence however is the dialogue, particularly when several characters are conversing at the same time. It was like ‘The Exorcist’ if the cast of ‘Eldorado’ had a go... a quick go.. on their lunch break.

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