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Final Destination #1: Dead Reckoning

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This book was fast paced and aweasome.The deaths wern't the best but the characters r aweasome. The jerk off Eric reminded me of the guy Carter in the first movie.But I do have to say the club seen when it collapsed was the best.If u like fd then u should give this book a read.

This book was awesome! I couldn't put it down it is so much better than the movies! The deaths are way more creative than the movie, they didn't need gore to make it freaky. When some people die they don't really tell what happens take an example from a character who begins with a B.

Now everyone else gives Eric a bad rap but he isn't that horrible he just extremely stubborn. You'll like the ending, it is somewhat like FD2. I will read all of them and I also suggest the movie "Final Destination 3" it is awesome, bloody but awesome. I am so looking foward to the the new book coming out this summer.

First things first, I only purchased this book (got it on Amazon
as you can't find it in the stores) due to my love of the 2 Movies, along with the intriguing concept. Didn't expect much.

Was pleasantly surprised as the book has fresh believable characters. The vision and catastrophe this time around is during a rock concert in a small venue (Movie 1 was a Plane Crash; Movie 2 was a massive highway disaster). Vividly & horrifically described.

While the movie-premise was the book basis there was intrigue and real suspense due to the authors misdirection and sudden scene shifting. The writing is cinematic with clear visuals and clever. Characterization was good but could have been taken farther. Another divergence from 'movie-tie-in' books is that it was 400 pages vs the obligatory 250. Give it a shot.

On the note so great side is that the editor must've been on vacation. One whole chapter the main character 'Jess' became 'Tess' - huh? And there were many typos, "She reached up to scratch her noise (nose).

Am currently reading the second book, to which there's filaments from this book, so read them in order.

Two notes on book 2 (Destination Zero)

A. At the end of this book there's a 20 page preview / except of book 2, nothing unusual about that. HOWever those 20 pages do not appear in book 2, so it's a bonus - although not heralded that way (Editor still sleeping?)

B. Book 2 diverges somewhat from the movie & first book plotline and adds to the mystique. More on that in another review.

End Note: A third movie comes out in January. Movie adaptations are also due out then, along with Book 5 of 'this' series.


John Panno
Chicagoland

Excited to read this movie tie-in, I was excpecting a gorey good time like the film series, yet as I read on and on the novel seemed to become more annoying and juvenile. The characterization was dreadful. I felt virtually nothing for any of them, even when they died. This is from the authors inability to create any shred of decent character development. The men were all drunken idiodic jock types, while every woman was either a slut or ditz.

The diologue was so cheesy, I found myself cringing in near pain, and if I read the word "cheeky" one more time, I could have snapped. Also the book was overloaded with gramatical errors and misspellings. In one chapter a boy was fixing his Camaro and three paragraphs later the car was a Corvette. It was as if the editor was extremely tired or on a five day coke binge while checking over this novel.

The plot was extremely dull as compared to the movies, with lame deaths and hideously boring characters. Natasha Rhodes took an eternity to get to the point with anything of slight interest. It seemed the victims died off painstakingly slowly and when they were killed Rhodes seems to skip over their deaths with only a sentence or two detailing it. Also, the deaths were a complete dud, extremely dissapointing. One woman got bit by a spider, one was impaled by a drumstick, and then there was the woman who had an air conditioner fall on her.

Everything about this book screamed amature. There really wasnt any part in the book that I felt passionately about. Watch the movies, but skip this book.

I'm dying to see Final Destination 3 so I decided to get the books to tie me over until it's out.
I really enjoyed this book, it's a pretty good page turner. It follows the plot to the movies pretty much, opens with an accident, girl has vison and saves a group of people. Said survivors begin dying horribly.
The deaths where pretty cool, nice and gory at times. The book was quite suspencefull and I was hooked on it.

I had a few minor problems with it though. It didn't seem to follow some of the rules, interviening did nothing!
Some of the characters really annoyed me, that damn Eric, I wished for a long and painful demise on that dumbass!
Also some of the deaths where pretty cheap, I wish they spent more time one them. Also there was some sections in the book I didn't really like, I felt they kind of took me out of the story a little.

But I do recommend this, if you are a fan of FD, this book should do you.

I was rather excited about all these new series soming out from Black flame, a nightmare on elm street, friday the thirteenth, etc. And since Final Destination is one of my favs I decided to get the book............

Basic Plotline, same as movies, written okay, the only two characters, Jess and Alex, are pretty likeable, everyone else you don't really care what happens to them....... the death scene at the beginning is very creepy, little like King's prom scene in Carrie, but anyways she saves a couple of people, and they all die off horriblely, yadda yadda yadda ..... u know the story. people die just randomly with out question so don't get to attached.........It didn't measure up to my excpetations, but if ur a fan of the movies, you'll prob. like this book.......

When I finished this book, I put it down and sighed. Wow, this could've been so much better then what was given to me. Since my, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 review might've been all around and hard to follow, let me break down this review.
First off folks, the storyline. Young, punk-rock, get the hell out of my face Jess Golden has a premonition of the building she's playing in collapsing. Oh my God, what does she do? Why, my friends, she gets her ass out of there of course. But those who follow her, including the terribly annoying, preppy Eric (I'll get to this guy later) and her somewhat boyfriend Jamie, are thankfully saved from the inevitable death that awaits them (big words)! Then they all seem to die off rather slowly, and I wasn't that much interested.
In the creativity department, I guess you can say Rhodes tried her best. Again, it felt kind of repetitive in some points in the book. I rarely felt scared or gloomy like I did in the dark Suffer the Children novel. It seemed too funny to be scary. I never once really, deeply cared about the characters. And by the end of the novel (and only at the end for some reason), the word `cos' was used more than the number of games the Chicago White Sox have won (and they've won a lot for all those who didn't already know). Ugh, what can I say, I only spent $8 on it...
In the fear and gore department....cricket noises please. I was rarely scared, and the gore was kept to a minimum. There's not much I can say without spoiling the plot.
And finally, in the Eric department. My god, he is an annoying son of a bitch. If he were a true person, I would have killed him myself, not saying that he dies or anything...or does he? I can't spoil this book for you, even if I did somewhat dislike it.
Overall, it's an okay read with okay characters and okay ideas. Still, Dead Reckoning could've been so much better. Oh well, maybe Destination Zero (which seems to have helicopters in it, based on the preview in the end of the book) will be more exciting and better.

I give it 2 annoying Erics out of 5

Rated PG-13: language and violence