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"A genre-bending horror thriller that grapples with adolescent desire and existential dread... Gooey, gory, and frightening, Kennedy's latest will appeal to fans of coming-of-age horror."—Booklist
"An eerie, surrealist twist on the American Midwest, highlighting everything unusual about small-town living... the focus on creating a desolate and strange atmosphere pays off. Horror fans who value ambiance over jump scares will want to check this out."—Publishers Weekly
"A Lynchian sense of creeping nastiness, rooted in the way small-town life can be stifling, pervades a novel that, as its various plot strands come together, has a whirlwind energy that's hard to resist. Four stars."—SFX Magazine
"Strap yourselves in for a super-storm of psycho-sexual intensity: American gothic, full-blown horror, wrapped up in an adolescent coming-of-age tale... Don’t try to understand, just get swept up and enjoy the ride."—Daily Mail
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Indie Next List Pick (September '21)
The Times Best Book of 2021
"Worth the cover price for sheer insolence alone... Essential reading for the gathering dark." —The Times Saturday Review
"A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment." —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Radicalized
"Explores questions of free will, psychology and human history in a fascinating, compulsively readable thriller."—The Guardian
“An entertainingly mind-bending read.”—Financial Times
"Audaciously clever and well written... [a] superb piece of storytelling: vivid, thought provoking and unsettling. After you finish it you’ll want to go back to the start and read it again." —SFX Magazine
"A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero."
—Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of Water
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"Hilarious . . . Readers with a finely tuned sense of the absurd are going to adore the Technicolor ride."
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"Fantasy done to a clever, grotesque, nonsensical turn." —Chicago Sun-Times
"A work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention." —Time Out Chicago
"An extraordinary and delightfully weird romp that’s one part China Mieville, one part Lemony Snicket, with trace amounts of Madeline L’Engle and Roald Dahl . . . Kennedy has filled 400+ pages with a series of strange turn-ups and adventures that grow progressively more outlandish and funny, such that when you think he’s surely run out of runway and must crash, he finds new, unsuspected weirdness to explore.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, For The Win, and co-editor of Boing Boing
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