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

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thiscryptidreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

📖 - 393 pages
Genre: occult horror
POV: Single
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This was a vivid gory acid trip. Constantine meets American Gods vibes with a dash of Angels Wolf, Ram, and Hart.

I loved the characters they all had so much depth you wanted to know more about them with each page turn, you're endeared and invested with Julie and her friends until the end and their mysterious, magical and macabre world.

The book is a bit stuffy to read at times. Using some verbiage, I felt you might need a dictionary or Google search to make sure you were following along right. There were so many layers to the story, and each chapter Ping ponged you somewhere else so quickly it was occasionally hard to follow, so much so that the ending felt rushed and a bit cliffhangery. I was left needing more. (Hopefully a book 2 happens)

The slow burn added a nice tension that really drove the characters all the way to the end despite their being no actual romance most of the time. You want to cheer for them.

Tyler can eat a bag of dicks. (No I won't explain further)
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pencilled_robin's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

liked the characters.

Julie and Sarah made such a cute couple - I was rooting for them all the way.

Also, more St. Joan please!

The authors have a talented way with words, and there were several times where I had to stop and marvel at how well they phrased something. However, the endless descriptions of cruelty and gruesome, painful deaths did get wearing after a while.

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fuathling's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Kinda peters out at the end but the prose is fun to read and the descriptions are rapt with yummy bloody details. Fun to read, but found myself unsatisfied with the ending: is this supposed to be a series?

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kpharoah's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Dead on the A Train is deliciously dark and filled with gore, where worshipping Eldritch horrors is common place, especially on Wall Street.

It's full of humour and do not take it seriously.

But that's where the positives stop for me. The whole plot of the book would've been resolved in a couple of chapters if Tyler wasn't a major a**hole. And it doesn't have a definite ending, it just sort of ends, presumably to entice for a second book.

Warnings of serious gore, murder and violence, drugs and drug taking.

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