Dead Take the a Train

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Cassandra Khaw, Richard Kadrey: Dead Take the a Train (2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-78928-0
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Queer romance, female empowerment, and death to corpos

Action-packed, full of mysteries, most of which get satisfactorily resolved, but more importantly, a touching romance between two old friends who bring out the best in each other.

The only thing really lacking was a final showdown between the MC and her magically evil, corporate-ladder-climbing ex, but perhaps there's a sequel in store? I would read it. Anyway, good fun and lots and lots of gore, with a strong theme of bodily invasion and reproduction. Creepy and gross, so avoid if that stuff isn't your thing.

The Dead Take the A Train, by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey

Cassandra Khaw (of The Salt Grows Heavy) and Richard Kadrey (of the Sandman Slim series) team up in The Dead Take the A Train to deliver a gore-spattered tale of a hex-first-ask-questions-later anti-heroine, a new love, scheming corporate sorcerors, and way more mysteries than I could shake a haunted stick at. Readers with cast iron stomachs will find a lot here to love—especially with Halloween on the horizon. If you don’t have such a stomach, you might want to pass on this one unless you can strategically turn off your ability to picture what’s happening in the book in your head...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.

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