The Sweet Dead Life
- Author Joy Preble
- Narrator Madeleine Lambert
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 14 May 2013
- Run Time 6 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mysteries and the unexplained.
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What to expect
"I found out two things today: One, I think I'm dying. And two, my brother is a perv."
So begins the diary of fourteen-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her sixteen-year-old brother, Casey, tries to hold together what's left of the family by working two after-school jobs—difficult, as he's stoned all the time. To make matters worse, Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead.
Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long, Jenna figures out that Casey didn't survive the accident at all. He's an "A-word" (she can't bring herself to utter the truth). Soon they discover that Jenna isn't just dying; she's being poisoned. And Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother's mysterious depression and father's disappearance.
Critics Review
u201cA smart, sassy, supernatural mystery chock-full of heart, hope, and fun.u201d
u201cA snarky, sarcastic murder mystery that I absolutely couldnu2019t put down!u201d
u201cJennau2019s sarcastic and sassy tone will easilynresonate with readers, and her keen observations are derisive andnlaugh-out-loud funny.u201d
u201cThereu2019s a whole lot going on here: poisonings,nblackmail, sibling relationships, romance, and abandonment, in addition tonangels, but the unifying thread is Jennau2019s clever, bitter, self-aware, andnloving voiceu2026Prebleu2019s lively descriptions and unusually well-drawn, caringnsibling relationship (a topic not usually explored in teen fiction) arenespecially noteworthy.u201d
u201cBizarre? Yes, very. Fun to read? Yes, very.u201d
u201cThe Sweet Dead Life is mischief and mayhem, zippy one-liners, mystery and a tiny bit of tragedy. A-word: Awesome.u201d
| Author | Joy Preble |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Madeleine Lambert |
| Duration | 6 hours and 7 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781482100631 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mysteries and the unexplained |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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