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    Over Your Dead Body
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    Over Your Dead Body
    Audiobook9 hours

    Over Your Dead Body

    Written by Dan Wells

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest-but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use, and meanwhile Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. She flips in and out of lucidity, manifesting new names and thoughts and memories every day, until at last the one personality pops up that John never expected and has no idea how to deal with: the last of Nobody's victims, trapped forever in the body of his last remaining friend.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781494577582
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    Over Your Dead Body
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    Dan Wells

    Dan Wells is the author of the john Cleaver series: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr Monster, and I Don’t Want to Kill You. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and Campbell award and has won two Parsec Awards for his podcast, Writing Excuses. He plays a lot of games, reads a lot of books and eats a lot of food, which is pretty much the ideal life he imagined for himself as a child. You can find out more online at www.fearfulsymmetry.net.

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    • 3/5
      I admit I was expecting something more from this book, especially since I liked so much the previous one.While I enjoyed the focus on John and Brooke/not Brooke, it felt like the first half of the book dragged on for too long: the storyline with the first Withered seemed, after all, quite unnecessary.I'd have appreciated more background information and more details on the second storyline instead, it was way more interesting!I'm also not a fan of John's decision at the end but I'm hoping that the next book will right things up. I'm optimistic like that.
    • 3/5
      Definitely the worst of all the John Cleaver novels. I really wasn't into where the story went and had a hard time pushing through the middle. Far too much time is taken up by John and Brooke hitchhiking around the country with no money and no food. It was interesting at first, but at some point you get the idea, the stage has been set, and showing more scenes of the same thing is just beating a dead horse. Imagine watching Aladdin and instead of one or two scenes to establish how poor he is, him being poor and trying to find food takes up most of the movie. That's what this is like. I found myself bored to tears as no forward progress was made, no new revelations discovered. They were just spinning their wheels doing fuck all and I was stuck in limbo waiting for the story part of this story to finally materialize.

      The book does eventually figure its shit out about two thirds of the way through when our protagonists see that someone was gruesomely killed in the small town they expected to find a withered in but didn't, and go back there. Why did they need to leave in the first place? It just adds unnecessary words, nothing important happens between the leaving and the returning. If I were an editor that's one of the first recommendations I would've made. The book is short as it is, but that's no reason to abide pointless words that could've easily been cut. The main focus of the book is clearly this small town, so make it the focus. Replace some of the repetitive homeless hitchhiking scenes that don't add anything with more words and more time spent in the town; planning, investigating, doing the John Cleaver thing. I literally can't think of a reason not to have done it that way. It just kinda seems like Wells wrote himself into a corner with the last one and got super thrown off his game and didn't know how to handle it.

      So...yeah. Not the best. Bit of a mess, really, especially compared to the rest of the series which is incredibly strong and incredibly consistent. And not that this is a huge deal, but there were also an embarrassing amount of typos and grammatical errors compared to the previous books, which is weird. Read it for the complex relationship between our two main characters, for the strong final third, and to get yourself ready for the next book, which will hopefully be a lot better.