I truly amazing and remarkable story needs some fundamental ingredients...
...like characters you an relate to. Why I start with that? Because in the long run the characters are the reason why I stay with the book and return for next. I need at least one I can relate to. One Word Kill has 5. Five teenegers: Nick, our lead character, is a 15 year old who just found out he has cancer. He takes it pretty well considering he has to go through chemotherapy once a week. Elton, who is into martial arts, Simon the computer geek, John the rich boy who is into D&D and the latest addition to their group, Mia. They play D&D every week and that gives them something solid, something constant. Their relationship reminded me of Stranger Things, of what those boys have, something akin to brotherhood. Oh and there is Demus. Interesting fella, that one.

...and any real good stories have villains too. Now this is a fairly short book and the villain in this case is a total nutjob called Ian Rust. There is not much that can be said about him except that he deserves what he gets.

The other most important ingredient is the plot. The stranger the better. The more impossible it seems the better. And this one has some crazy ideas which are even crazier because they might become real some day.

Highly recommended.

I haven’t read anything else by Mark Lawrence yet but I will and I sure will read the next book in the series too and I’m going to start reading it immediately.

Thanks to NetGalley, 47North and Mark Lawrence for my copy.