One Word Kill

Impossible Times, Book 1

By: Mark Lawrence

Narrated by: Matthew Frow

A Goodreads Choice Award finalist.

“I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer.” - George R.R. Martin

In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.

Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange - yet curiously familiar - man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help - now.

He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.

Challenge accepted.

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by bestselling author Mark Lawrence.

©2019 by Mark Lawrence. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Time travel with an AD&D twist

Interesting how AD&D is integrated into the story of a kid with cancer, his friends and his future self.

Mostly ok.

I'm still not sure if this book was meant for young teens or not, but the narrator sounded like he was reading the Hardy Boys or Goosebumps. As for the book itself, in a time travel sci-fi narrative you'd expect many twists and turns as nothing is what it seems. Here, everything is what it seems and nothing is subverted. I'm left wondering what I got from listening.

Reads like very good YA fiction

Nice blending of alternate time / time travel possibilities with a coming of age story. Very different that Mark Lawrence’s better known work, but still a good listen.

good for d&d players

not sure how others will like it. also quantum physicists may be critical, I suspect.

Unexpected

As a fan of Mark Lawrence's work I was uncertain about this venture into SF. Totally different, but with the same great character development. Thoroughly enjoyable, with terrific narration. Finished in one sitting.