Title: Dead Set
Author: Richard Kadrey
Pub Date: October 29th 2013
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Page Count: 320
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Author: Richard Kadrey
Pub Date: October 29th 2013
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Page Count: 320
After her father’s funeral, Zoe and her mother moved to the Big City to start over. But life’s not so easy, the money is tight, and a new school brings trials. Fortunately, she has an escape: her dreams. A world of freedom and solace removed from the loneliness and anxieties of real life, Zoe's dreamscape offers another, more precious, gift: It is the only place where she can spend time with her closest companion — her lost brother Valentine.
Yet something is very wrong. An unfamliar — and univited — presence has entered her private realm to threaten Zoe and Valentine, a disturbing turn of events that is compounded by an impossible discovery. A chance encounter at a used record store where the grooves of the vinyl discs hold not music, but lost souls, has opened up a portal to the world of the restless dead. Now, the shop’s strange proprietor is offering Zoe the chance to commune with the father whose passing took a piece of her heart. The price? A lock of hair. Then a tooth. Then...
How far into this eerie world will Zoe go to discover what she truly needs? And once she does, will there be enough left of her to come back?
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Dead Set really is a punk version of the Wizard of Oz!
Our main character Zoe, is a girl who's stumbled into a (not-so) magical world. She was trying to find her father, who, by the way, is dead. Tying with Egyptian Mythology, this book had my attention throughout. What I couldn't do, however, was the fact that it was in 3rd person. I don't like novels in 3rd because it makes me feel really detached from the character.
The story was really fun. It started off looking like some gritty contemporary but quickly because supernatural and thrilling. There's a lot of action and things Zoe has to do to save that world, led by an evil queen. And as I was reading, I kept thinking back to the Wiz of Oz. if you sit there and think about it, the ties are really close and mindblowing.
Richard Kadrey is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. He is the author of dozens of stories, plus ten novels, including Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha from Hell, Devil Said Bang, Kill City Blues, Metrophage and Butcher Bird. His Wired magazine cover story, Carbon Copy, was made into one of the worst movies of 2001. It starred Bridget Fonda. Sorry, Bridget.
He has been immortalized as an action figure. “Kadray: The Invincible Wizard” was a villain in an episode of the Blackstar animated TV series.
Kadrey created and wrote the Vertigo comics mini-series ACCELERATE, which was illustrated by the Pander Brothers. He plans to do more comic work in the near future.
He has written and spoken about art, culture and technology for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW and Wired For Sex on the G4 cable network.
Richard has no qualifications for anything he does.
Blythe was just reading this a while ago. It sounds really creepy and good.
ReplyDeleteLovely review, Nova! <33