Dead End Drive
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Ready or Not Meets Agatha Christie in this transgressive, satire-laced debut.
When Agatha Benedict plucked Kelly off the city streets to replace her dead cat Poopsie, she neglected to inform him of some very important house traditions. The history of the Benedict Estate prescribes that once the estate owner passes on, a will reading is to take place. However, the reading is more than passing on a loved one's final wishes; it's a figurative gunshot into the air, an alert to all in attendance that a playful game of anything goes murder has begun. The prize? The inheritance, of course. As if visiting, a storm comes in with the guests, trapping everyone on the property for the night. While Kelly plays catch-up on with house rules, once friendly family members have already sharpened their knives. Try as he might, there is no survival if he won't play by the same rules as everyone else.
For fans of Ready or Not, this is a uniquely funny and dark murder party with big personalities. A coming-of-age story if growing up felt like being stabbed in the back by everyone you hold dear. As suspenseful as Agatha Christie's And then There Were None, as bitterly sardonic as American Psycho, and as slapstick as Clue, Dead End Drive is a black comedy and satirical look into the world of nihilism and the rat race of life we all see, but pretend we don't because... Let's be honest: is there anything more valuable than having every last need met for life?
Ian Kirkpatrick
Ian Kirkpatrick is an author of speculative fiction, satire, and literary fiction with elements of scifi, horror, and comedy. Her credentials are these: an MFA in Creative Writing, a Masters in Forensic Psychology, and a BA in Theater. She's particularly obsessed with human nature, rationale, morality, good and evil, absurdity, and the supernatural bend you can find between mythology and reality, so her fiction will often contain these elements. She particularly enjoys using exaggeration, contrast, and incongruity to paint the worlds she creates. While she writes across genres, these elements will often still be found in her works along with innocent characters, psychopathic characters, or a combination of the two.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book, It was laugh out loud funny. It is rare in my experience to have a humorous a novel in which there are murders. I can't say enough about this book with out giving away the a lot of details and the twist at the end was just precious. Who's going to be murdered and how will it be done? This is a very creative and humorous novel. I highly recommend it. The author makes this book so enjoyable I am going to see what else she has written and check out her publishing house and hope there are other books with this kind of humor.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book really wants to be a bloodier version of And Then There Was None by Agatha Christie. It takes that story and adds elements of the movies Ready or Not, and Knives Out. And it’s not successful. A woman has died and her children do not automatically inherit. They have to survive a night and a blood bath as all fight for control of the house and the wealth that comes with it. The cast of characters is something found in Clue. It wants to be both a comedy and tragedy. The biggest pet peeve for this reader is that the WHY is never really explained. Just it’s always been done that way, or so and so wanted it that way. That is not an explanation. To be honest, if I was reading this I would have DNFed before I got to the halfway point. However, I was listening to an audiobook, and the narrator did a fantastic job. Between the voices, the inflections, etc. The voice actor is what saves this book from being a complete waste of time.