University City Public Library Book Challenge: Dare To Know

Press release from University City Public Library Book Challenge:

January 9, 2022

Dare to Know by James Kennedy, 304 pages.

A breakthrough in particle physics allows mathematicians to predict the exact moment of a person's death with 100% accuracy. Which makes it a pretty big deal when our protagonist breaks taboo and calculates his own time of death, only to find that he was supposed to die 23 minutes ago. This speculative thriller takes the reader back and forth through the narrator's life as he journeys west to California to confirm his math with an ex-girlfriend and figure out it this break down in physics means apocalypse.

I really loved this author's first book, which was one of the funniest books I've ever read. Which made it very disappointing that I didn't care for this book much at all. There was a whole lot of plot here that was hard to follow and/or didn't make a lot of sense. I also found pretty much every character pretty sad and insufferable, so that didn't really help my overall reading enjoyment. There were some very cool descriptive scenes, and some genuinely frightening moments, which are probably the strongest moments in the book. I will also say that anyone who enjoyed Rabbits will probably like this one as well.

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