Steve Clark is the Reaver, last of the heroes left. In his
most recent fight with Octagon and the Eleventh Hour, a
group of super villains, he is defeated, badly.
Unexpectedly, he asks for a boon; two weeks to prepare to
die, which to everyone's' utter disbelief, Octagon grants
him.
What does a super hero do when he is granted two weeks to
live? Steve Clark makes a list. See his high school
girlfriend, Adele, get together with her again, take her out
on a date, talk to his best friend's parents and tell them
the truth about their dead son, build a scholarship in the
name of his ex-sidekick, Kid Crater etc. Last but not the
least... Fight? For what, with whom he does not know, just
felt right to add it to his final list. This is his story.
Told in his own words about his origins, history and how and
why he has made a list of what he has.
I picked up PREPARE TO DIE thinking it would be a suspense
thriller without reading the blurb. To my surprise, this is
a super hero story and told in first POV. Normally this POV
puts me off, but the way Paul Tobin started off, I could not
put it down from the very first chapter. Everyone who
loves comic books and movies based on them, will absolutely
love this book. In fact anyone who has seen the current
movies based on Avengers, Iron Man, Dark Knight etc and
loved them, need to pick up PREPARE TO DIE.
PREPARE TO DIE is a complete package of
action, suspense and brilliant merging of past and present
that will leave you feeling like you are watching a movie
rather than reading a book. What makes the Reaver special is
not his super human strength or super-fast self-healing or
his ability to knock of one year of a person's life through
his punch but what makes him human, imperfect. His journey
will make you understand him on a very personal level, feel
with him, cry with him and laugh at his observations and
actions.
No character in this book is one-dimensional
including the villains... especially the villains. Their
brutality will shock you and so will this hero's not so
heroic thoughts make it all the more realistic in terms of
humanity. The twists and turns will leave you on the edge of
the seat and by the end, you will want more. After reading
PREPARE TO DIE, I have become a huge fan of Paul Tobin and
will
definitely be keeping an eye out for more books by him.
Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love
with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill
transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful
fists can literally take a year off a bad guy’s life. Days
ago, he found himself at the mercy of his arch-nemesis
Octagon and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who
gave him two weeks to settle his affairs–and prepare to
die.
Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing
tragedies, the world’s greatest hero is returning to where
it all began in search of the boy he once was . . . and the
girl he never forgot.
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