One Word Kill

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hardcover, 204 pages

Published May 1, 2019 by 47North.

ISBN:
978-1-5420-4283-3
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In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.

Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help—now.

He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.

Challenge accepted.

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reviewed One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times)

Review of 'One Word Kill' on 'LibraryThing'

I can't say it was terrible, but it wasn't exactly enjoyable either.

I picked up the book because the blurb hinted at a group of friends playing D&D and fantastical (game) events start bleeding into their lives. But that's not it at all. I don't really think D&D was really that critical to the story. You could replace that with any afterschool activity and it would be the same thing.

My main problem with the story though was that I felt like it was building up to something, and the ending failed to deliver. It could be because I read this book not realising it was book 1 of a trilogy and so did not mentally prepare myself accordingly.

I'm not sure I care enough to read the rest of the series.