“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero.”—Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of Water Now in paperback, this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller is set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price, featuring an excerpt from the upcoming Bride of the Tornado . Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago. The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he’s forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for. Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this thought-provoking thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its shocking conclusion.
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guys i don’t know wtf just happened.
most of the time this just felt like a weird fever dream that i at first i could mostly comprehend but as it went on became even more non-sensical and absolutely bizarre but i was just stuck on the ride.
i may not understand everything that happened but that doesn’t stop me from having feelings about it.
i have positive feelings towards most of what i read but i do think the writing can drag a bit towards the middle but it’s so absolutely insane i couldn’t stop reading. very glad i went into this knowing nothing (i hadn’t even read the full synopsis) and i think that made things more fun although probably more confusing.
in the end i felt like i was looking at a piece of art that i probably don’t fully comprehend or understand the full scope of intention but it makes me feel a certain type of way anyway, i still got the essence of it.