Hi Cara,
Today I am reviewing Dare to Know by James Kennedy.
Dare to Know is being published 14th September 2021
Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted–for a price.
Our narrator is the most talented salesman at Dare to Know, a prestigious and enigmatic company in the death-prediction business. While he has mastered the art of death, the rest of his life is an abject failure. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's driven to violate the cardinal rule of his business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: apparently he died 23 minutes ago.
The only person who can confirm his prediction is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, our narrator is forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for--and his role there.
Highly ambitious and totally immersive, this adrenaline-fueled thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion.
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)Â
Dare to Know is a book which story took a turn I did not expect.Â
When I started reading Dare to Know, I couldn't help make the comparison in my mind to Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. And how the modern world has impacted them. But that feeling didn't last long as his motivations aren't the same. Also, never warmed or liked the narrator. I couldn't found an aspect of his personality that I liked. I did find it interesting that as the book goes from past to present we see the revelation of his character.Â
The premise of Dare to know, I found it fascinating. The idea is that the date of your Death can be worked out via a scientific formula. The nerdy part of me wants to understand the science of it all.Â
The ending to me by surprise as it went really into the Sci-Fi territory, it got a little trippy.Â
My rating for Dare to Know is 3.5 out of 5
Thank you to Quirk Books and Black Crow PR for gifting me an advanced reader copy of Dare to Know for review.Â
If you enjoyed this post, I would appreciate it if you help it spread by emailing it to a friend or sharing it on Twitter or any other social media platform.
Don't miss out on any of my posts by signing up for my blog.
Thanks for reading,
