Title: The Dead Take the A Train
Author: Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey
Rating Out of 5: 2.5 (Readable, but not worth reading again)
Pace: Slow
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2023

I absolutely loved the start of The Dead Take the A Train. It was chaotic, it was gruesome. It was truly insane. I was immediately drawn in and couldn’t wait to keep reading this book. But, sadly, that feeling really quickly dissipated. This novel just failed to keep my focus. I was finding that it was dragging on and there was a whole heap of information and competing story arcs that just seemed absolutely pointless. Plus, the focus on describing the gore without it actually doing anything for the story line started to feel a little meaningless.

Don’t get me wrong, I love gore. I love insanity. And I have absolutely no issue with characters who abuse drugs. But only if this furthers the story, which I just found that this didn’t. So after halfway and not feeling like anything was actually happening, I decided that maybe this just isn’t the book for me. It was just trying to do too much well, rather than a little bit brilliantly.

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