Praise for Last Chance Live!:
An Indies Introduce Pick!
"This is quite frankly a perfect book. Powerful message, masterful storylines, and exquisite writing. If we live in a just world, this candid, reflective and explosive tale of race and reality will remind us all how possible the world of the story is, and how much work we must do to change that. Last Chance Live! is a chilling classic."Kwame Alexander, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Door of No Return Trilogy and Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir
Last Chance Live! takes readers on a deeply humanizing journey of a teen on death row competing in a reality tv show to earn freedom. Told through past and present vignettes with biting intellect and moments of aching humanity, Henry confronts the machinery of identity, justice and youth with chilling clarity. Unrelenting, darkly funny, and quietly hopeful, this book demands to be readand remembered.J.Elle NYT bestselling author of Wings of Ebony
This speculative story feels like a dystopia that is just within reach of the real world. Fans of Black Mirror and Squid Game will love this. Readers will learn to love our main character while she is on death row.Erin Decker, White Rose Books & More, Kissimmee, FL
I felt sick the whole time I was reading this book. Helena sees so clearly a reality were swiftly moving toone weve been swiftly moving to, echoed in books like Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games and movies like Death Raceand she deftly managed to make us care about everyone and worry about the end. Try to read more slowly, to delay getting there. This one is going to stay with me for a long, long time and I cant wait to recommend it to everyone I know.Grace Lane, Linden Tree Books, Los Altos, CA
Like most dystopian books these days, this is far too close to real life for comfort. Its heart-wrenching and deeply moving, but also fast-paced and funny. It may seem strange to relate so deeply to characters on death row, but thats the point: we're all just people born into vastly different circumstances, making the best or worst or only possible choices, able to heal and change and forgive. Maybe the only constant is our humanity. There were insights in this book that felt like they were pulled directly from my own life. Powerful.Frederick Rossero, Oblong Books, Millerton, NY