I was lucky enough to receive a copy of this book through the Goodreads First reads giveaway programme. I had it in my "To Read" notebook already having read some of the reviews of the novel.I enjoyed it tremendously (though "enjoy" might not be the best word). There's a palpable feeling of dread...
Alcestis dies, but then she comes back from the dead?’ Ricky hadn’t managed to read to the end of Alcestis and was piecing it together from the others’ descriptions. ‘Yup,’ said Jono. ‘Hercules turns up and mugs Death to get her back.’ Ricky looked mutely at me. I nodded. That summed things up pr...
‘But we couldn’t find anything online and we couldn’t think of any reasons ourselves.’ Ben looked pained – he hated failure. ’I’ve tried too,’ he admitted. ‘There’s nothing, is there?’ ‘Not that I could find. But you’re better at this kind of thing. I mean, how did you do that stuff with the elec...