Moving to the city with her Mom wasn't Zoe's idea. After her
father died, Zoe and her mom needed a fresh start, not to
mention a cheaper place to live because the insurance
company has lost all her dad's paperwork and are claiming he
never existed. Sick of this new life and fresh start, Zoe is
looking for an escape. She finds it in a used record store.
This record store doesn't simply offer music. In a tiny back
room most people pass without noticing, there are thousands
of records that hold lost souls, and Zoe's dad is on one of
them. The proprietor of this strange shop is willing to let
Zoe listen, but there is a price. There's always a price and
it may be more than Zoe can pay.
In DEAD SET, Richard Kadrey delivers a richly imagined story
that begs us to ask ourselves, what would we be willing to
give for one more day? I'm a fan of Kadrey's writing and
love the darkly comic, irreverent tone he uses to tell his
stories that revolve around death and the afterlife. Zoe
embodies the best of that tone. She's all sharp-edged and
punk to her core. She's snarky, funny, and intelligent.
She's sentimental and compassionate and feels the loss of
her father deeply. It's that combination of punk attitude
and empathy that allows her to see beyond the boundaries
into the realms of the dead. She refuses to listen when
people tell there's nothing she can do to save her dad. She
refuses to follow the company line because that's the only
way. That refusal gets her into a lot of trouble but it's
what makes her the perfect character to root for.
DEAD SET flirts with mythology, and it's fun to find those
links because they add another layer to the impressive scope
of Kadrey's world. The city where the dead linger is named
Iphigene. In Greek mythology Iphigenia is the daughter
Agamemnon sacrificed in order to sail to Troy. I'll let you
read DEAD SET to fill in the connection, but those details
give this novel a depth that will make you want to re-read
because every journey back into this amazing story world
will reveal another layer and another connection between the
living and the dead.
DEAD SET by Richard Kadrey is quite simply fantastic. The
world is rich in myth and symbolism, but it is Zoe who makes
this story a modern hero's quest into the land of the dead.
Zoe has the attitude and heart that could change the world,
but she'll have to make it out of the land of the dead
first! DEAD SET is definitely a novel worth buying, and I
can't wait for more titles by Richard Kadrey.
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey creates a wonderful, stand-alone dark fantasy After her father's funeral, Zoe moved to the big city with her mother to start over. But change always brings trials, and life in the city is not so easy. Money is tight, and Zoe's only escape, as has always been the case, is in her dreams—a world apart from her troubled real life where she can spend time with her closest companion: her lost brother, Valentine. But something or someone has entered their dreamworld uninvited. And a chance encounter at a used record store, where the vinyl holds not music but lost souls, has opened up a portal to the world of the restless dead. It's here that the shop's strange proprietor offers Zoe the chance to commune with her dead father. The price? A lock of hair. Then a tooth. Then . . .
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