Lance Rubin (1)
Author of Denton Little's Deathdate
For other authors named Lance Rubin, see the disambiguation page.
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- Gender
- male
- Birthplace
- New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Education
- Brown University
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- Works
- 4
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 510
- Popularity
- #48,631
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 28
- ISBNs
- 44
- Languages
- 3
I have very mixed feelings about this one. It's a cool premise. Maybe not entirely original, as I've encountered it several places before, but this one does do some interesting things with it. It's entertainingly and sometimes amusingly written, and Denton is a likeable enough character that contemplating his death has some actual emotional weight. In a lot of ways, I quite enjoyed it. But the longer it went on, the less patience I had with the teen relationship drama (which, I fully realize, I am not the target audience for), with the sometimes incredibly stupid ways in which people react to things, and the increasingly ridiculous plot. Also, it ends on kind of an unsatisfying note -- not a cliffhanger, exactly, but very much a setup for the next book in the series, rather than a solid conclusion. And, let's be honest, given the premise, even knowing there is a next book in the series is kind of a spoiler, but an unfortunately unavoidable one.… (more)