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Question: Duma Key !.!. question, please read!?
I wanted a scary book to read after Pet Sematary, and chose Duma Key!.!.!. I have about 200 pages to finish (OUT OF 650) and I was wondering if someone can me their thoughts and also give me details on how the book ends!.!. (as I am going to read something new)

Don't get me wrong, I like the book - it's great, but I just not for me!.

*spoiler
I am up to the part where Miss Eastlake dies, I have read on here somewhere else that his daughter dies!.!. can you fill me in!?!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Well Edgar, the main character has been painting that boat over and over again!. He finds out that the boat is actually the boat of the dead that comes to collect souls!. He finds out the the boat is named Perse after this evil goddess who collects souls!. He realizes that the key to banishing the boat which has been coming closer and closer to his house that he must go to Miss eastlake's childhood home, where he finds out that when she was younger she had a doll that was possessed by Perse and ultimately ended up killing her whole family!. Edgar and his Friends find the doll, and ultimately trap it in a lead casing where she cannot escape in an old well!. Edgar also destroys his paintings as what he paints comes to life!. However he forgets to destroy one painting that the art critic bought on the night of his art show!. She becomes possessed and goes to his daughters house basically saying your father is in trouble which leads her to open the door and the art critic ends up drowning her!. Finally Edgar faces off with the boat where they try to lure him onto it by showing him his dead daughter!. He refuses and realizes that he must leave Duma Key which he does so only after painting a hurricane destroying Duma Key (which it does)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i can't believe you've read so much & now you're going to stop!. just finish it!! come on - you're almost done!

granted it's not scary but i thought it was pretty suspenseful!.

by the way, the "perse" character is persephone, queen of the underworld!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

TWILIGHT!. BEST BOOK EEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com