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Freeze Tag on the Highway by Brian Krans

rahthesungod's review

4.0

During the first quarter of this book I was annoyed. Having been previously impressed with Krans, I continued reading solely due to my hopes that "Freeze Tag On The Highway" would do to me what "A Constant Suicide" did. To the reader who makes it to page 80 and is wondering why you're reading an emotionally charged Palanhuik knock-off: KEEP READING. As I hoped, Krans gave me a glare at the life I try to pretend doesn't exist with burdensome prose and unnecessarily weighty sentences. I say "unnecessarily" and "overly" but it's important to the narration that this amount of depth is placed in Jake's head. It works to the advantage of the story. Freeze Tag will disturb you with its black and blue (rather than rose-colored) version of summer camp and the temerity to go where Jay McInerey and Chuck Palanhuik haven't the practicality or insight to go. I recommend this book to people who wish Palanhuik and McInerey would write a book together.