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Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw: The Dead Take the A Train (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Nightfire) 4 stars

Julie Crews is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-something who packs a lot of magic into her …

The Dead Take the A Train, by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey

3 stars

Cassandra Khaw (of The Salt Grows Heavy) and Richard Kadrey (of the Sandman Slim series) team up in The Dead Take the A Train to deliver a gore-spattered tale of a hex-first-ask-questions-later anti-heroine, a new love, scheming corporate sorcerors, and way more mysteries than I could shake a haunted stick at. Readers with cast iron stomachs will find a lot here to love—especially with Halloween on the horizon. If you don’t have such a stomach, you might want to pass on this one unless you can strategically turn off your ability to picture what’s happening in the book in your head...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.