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alicias_bookaddiction's review against another edition
5.0
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Death Warrant is a popular TV show that publicly assassinates the contestants. The show is spontaneous and has gripping stories a long with unexpected ways of killing the participants. Frankie is trying to find a way to help her sick brother financially. Turning to death warrant she thinks that is her only choice. Her brother will be paid millions from the viewers of her death warrant episode. The public and contestants will have no warning of when the assassination will happen.
This book is so good! The concept is creepy to be choosing to be assassinated. At first I thought the main character Frankie was mundane and boring, but wow that last 30 minutes of the book was full of character development and twists.
Death Warrant is a popular TV show that publicly assassinates the contestants. The show is spontaneous and has gripping stories a long with unexpected ways of killing the participants. Frankie is trying to find a way to help her sick brother financially. Turning to death warrant she thinks that is her only choice. Her brother will be paid millions from the viewers of her death warrant episode. The public and contestants will have no warning of when the assassination will happen.
This book is so good! The concept is creepy to be choosing to be assassinated. At first I thought the main character Frankie was mundane and boring, but wow that last 30 minutes of the book was full of character development and twists.
katykelly's review against another edition
5.0
TV Assassination by Consent? High-concept, clever, entertaining.
What an idea, and so so scary that I could easily imagine this on TV at the weekend.
We very quickly feel immersed in a society where individuals sign a contract with a TV company to allow for their own on-screen assassination, over the next year, by persons and methods unknown, forgetting all about it once the contract is signed. And money based on their TV ratings going to loved ones.
Wow. Sick, twisted, and impossible to resist reading about one such 'willing victim'. Frankie Percival, 30-something mentalist, with no boyfriend, a job she loves but that isn't going anywhere, and a brother damaged by a car accident and needing specialist care. She signs up for Death Warrant, and the reader then watches, fascinated and worrying, as we see potential TV actors enter her life, TV executives plan her demise, the set-up for her own gala performance which could also be her own denouement slowly come to fruition.
Knowing more than Frankie knows is an excellent conceit, she sees those we see as friends (BFFH - Best Friend For Hire is such a good idea!), new lovers, potential employers - we know they might be there to move Frankie towards her demise. Or are they? The reader can never be sure.
Her own occupation is explored in a fair amount of depth, certainly enough to fascinate. The audiobook is an excellent method of exploring this novel, giving Frankie a chirpy, likeable voice, and giving you hope throughout that things work out, wanting to see her stage show, and vacillating between wanting her to outwit her own planned-but-unforeseen death and still managing to keep her hard-won fame and new happiness.
Sped through this in a few days, just had to know what was going to happen!
Please be to all the gods that this is never read and taken seriously by an TV producers out there...
With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample audio copy.
What an idea, and so so scary that I could easily imagine this on TV at the weekend.
We very quickly feel immersed in a society where individuals sign a contract with a TV company to allow for their own on-screen assassination, over the next year, by persons and methods unknown, forgetting all about it once the contract is signed. And money based on their TV ratings going to loved ones.
Wow. Sick, twisted, and impossible to resist reading about one such 'willing victim'. Frankie Percival, 30-something mentalist, with no boyfriend, a job she loves but that isn't going anywhere, and a brother damaged by a car accident and needing specialist care. She signs up for Death Warrant, and the reader then watches, fascinated and worrying, as we see potential TV actors enter her life, TV executives plan her demise, the set-up for her own gala performance which could also be her own denouement slowly come to fruition.
Knowing more than Frankie knows is an excellent conceit, she sees those we see as friends (BFFH - Best Friend For Hire is such a good idea!), new lovers, potential employers - we know they might be there to move Frankie towards her demise. Or are they? The reader can never be sure.
Her own occupation is explored in a fair amount of depth, certainly enough to fascinate. The audiobook is an excellent method of exploring this novel, giving Frankie a chirpy, likeable voice, and giving you hope throughout that things work out, wanting to see her stage show, and vacillating between wanting her to outwit her own planned-but-unforeseen death and still managing to keep her hard-won fame and new happiness.
Sped through this in a few days, just had to know what was going to happen!
Please be to all the gods that this is never read and taken seriously by an TV producers out there...
With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample audio copy.
jothaniel's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Very different from what I expected it to be. No but to be so ffr, I was signed up and ready for her to die when she was biphobic to her hot bff 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭. The bread and circuses line at the end…you will never be Hunger Games, baby. Don’t even try…The Lady GaGa downfall manifestation…when you see the fury the Little Monsters will rain upon you…
princesscordelia's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
anzz26's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
lilnoto's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
“You can always earn more money, but you don't get more time. Time is finite. But it is predictable. It is consistent.”
neyssar's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This book was great. There weren’t any parts that felt rushed and it kept my attention from the beginning till the end. Also despite the fact that the book jumps from different perspectives and timelines, it still wasn’t distracting/confusing.
What almost ruined the book was that the main character is the type to make her entire personality being different, and tried too hard to be quirky. However, I chose to look past that for the sake of the killer plot and was not disappointed.
I highly recommend!
What almost ruined the book was that the main character is the type to make her entire personality being different, and tried too hard to be quirky. However, I chose to look past that for the sake of the killer plot and was not disappointed.
I highly recommend!
hattie2k's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
meredithrlyons's review against another edition
4.0
Really fun read. Mentalist Frankie's life is going okay, not great, and she meets with the television show Death Warrant to see about getting killed on live t.v., the proceeds all going to her brother once she dies. After she leaves, she'll have no memory of the visit.
The book flip flops between Frankie's interview with Death Warrant/Death Warrant getting ready to take her out, and her living her life afterward... which is steadily getting better. Really fun read and the twist at the end was satisfying.
The book flip flops between Frankie's interview with Death Warrant/Death Warrant getting ready to take her out, and her living her life afterward... which is steadily getting better. Really fun read and the twist at the end was satisfying.