![]() As a matter of fact, I love going on adventures myself. I loved this book, because I love adventure books. ![]() Playing Dead is a very intense and interesting book. This brutal, violent book is a page turner sure to appeal to reluctant readers, but it leaves more questions than it answers which will hopefully be addressed in the planned six additional sequels. But then she is murdered by some thugs who Blade thinks he recognizes from his past, but is she really dead? He realizes he has to leave the city and find a new place to live to escape these people from his past, and winds up allowing a teen mother and her daughter to tag alone. First he is jumped by a vicious girl gang, and then a Good Samaritan rescues him. Time leaps ahead to when Blade is fourteen and the main action takes place. ![]() The writing style is reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange with short, choppy sentences, an unusual slang, and the first person narration is directed at someone he calls “Big Eyes.” The short sentences contribute to the excitement and tension that build throughout the book beginning with when he is seven years old and the “porkers” are questioning him about his role in a traffic incident. Blade lives in an unnamed British city, he is homeless, and he breaks into houses and apartments just to sleep, shower, eat, and read books, which helps to humanize him. ![]() ![]() Blade is running from his past but he gives few clues throughout the book to what that past entails. ![]()
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