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One Word Kill

Impossible Times, Book 1

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One Word Kill

By: Mark Lawrence
Narrated by: Matthew Frow
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About this listen

A Goodreads Choice Award finalist.

“I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer.” - George R.R. Martin

In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.

Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange - yet curiously familiar - man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’t exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia’s in grave danger, though she doesn’t know it yet. She needs Nick’s help - now.

He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics.

Challenge accepted.

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by bestselling author Mark Lawrence.

©2019 by Mark Lawrence. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Romance Law

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Unusual and interesting story. Perhaps needs a bit more excitement, but worth reading. Well performed.

Completely Different

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... but really enjoyed it. Finished Holy Sister, and went straight into One Word Kill, do you need to read Marks other works to enjoy this? No, but you should!

Wasn't what I expected...

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I bought this after liking another book of Mark Lawrence's. Thankfully the one word kill series did not dissapointed either. Well written, great use of time travel mechanics and the butterfly effect etc. Lots of twists and turns and not easy to "guess" the plot. Give mark a try.

Well worth the read /listen

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But really really good never the less.
I find Mark’s characters truly engaging and there are some intensely emotional moments. This is Mark Lawrence at his best : building flawed characters that you get invested in and a story line that grips you. In this instance I found it difficult to get going but once I was in the flow the story was superb.

Not the Mark Lawrence we’re used to

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Loved this book. The characterisation of all the kids is very well done - the story took a twist I was not expecting at the beginning. Look forward to the rest of the series. Great narrator. I found 1.35x speed best.

Amazing story and narration

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