The storyline is a nonexistent trip of terrible tales narrated by a ghost child named Camille Spencer. Spencer is a returning character from Palahniuk's best seller "Damned." The first few pages of "Doomed" alert the attention span and send the imagination into a journey of excitement, wonder and the will to seek answers into the possibility of an afterlife involving paradise and hell. Unfortunately "Doomed" is nothing more the a tantalizing tease that soon becomes the definition of boring.
The first few pages intrigued my interested when Palahniuk suggested religion was created by man because we'd rather have the wrong answers as opposed to no answers.
Spencer is neither mortal, nor spirit, apparently this 13-year-old girl escaped from hell from the book "Damned" which I have not read. Regardless of having read "Damned," the book "Doomed," lacked a plot and had no resolution, thus netting a half star rating.
It is suggested that Spencer's mom and dad had her killed when she was 11-years-old by a man named Goran. The parents reasoning for this was to bring their daughter back to life and proof to the world there a true religion they have invented or discovered. Palahniuk brings this subject up, then completely ignores the whole thing. Another subject brought up and never again explained is when an angel named Festus claims Spencer is God's latest mouth piece.
In Ancient times Moses, Jesus and the 12 disciples where the mouths of God on Earth, today it's the spirit form Spencer, Palahniuk suggests. He brings the topic up in "Doomed" then goes off into a tangent of uninteresting subjects that have nothing to do with anything and leaves the reader with nothing.
Babbling infants make more sense then "Doomed."
