Book review - Denton Little's Deathdate

Title: Denton Little's Deathdate
Author: Lance Rubin
Genre: humor/sci-fi
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Rating:

hmmm

Summary: In Denton's world, everyone knows the day they will die. For Denton, that day is tomorrow. While his classmates prepare for their prom, Denton is having his funeral and experiencing as much of life as he can. As these last minute experiences bring a lot of complication to his final days, the sudden appearance of a strange rash on his body and government agents asking strange questions add to the drama. As secrets are revealed, Denton has only hours to learn the truth.

My opinion: I rather liked most of this book and its ideas about the way people might behave if they knew what day they would die (though I'm not really sure how that's supposed to work. I can see how a blood test could predict heart disease, cancer, even a pregnancy complication, but a communicable disease or accident?). I liked the quirky, if somewhat shallow, characters. A lot of the final scenes threw me, though. These events were mostly properly foreshadowed, I just thought it went in an odd direction. Some of it felt sort of haphazard and the ending is very abrupt.

More information: Denton Little's Deathdate releases April 14th.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley.