Lucky Day - Wyrms.de

Published by Tor Nightfire.

(1 review)

Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up …

Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossible—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.

Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability...

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Amber Herbert reviewed Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

A macabre Rube Goldberg machine reminiscent of a Final Destination installment

4 stars

Chuck Tingle never disappoints. Lucky Day is full of highly unlikely but definitely possible body horror. When it's gory, it's a macabre Rube Goldberg machine reminiscent of a Final Destination installment. But it's not just about displaying crazy, blood-filled sequences. It's also about the chaotic, fucked-up events of our daily lives and how we view our simultaneously insignificant and profound existences. It's about staring down the absurd, twisted, unfair, and horrific aspects of life and determining that life is worth living because the bad is balanced out by beauty, love, joy, and miraculous coincidences.

I recommend this novel to anyone who grapples with existential dread or has ever believed their life was pointless or inconsequential.

Thank you to Tor Nightfire and NetGalley for the ARC.

Subjects

Horror
Queer