Make Sure You Die Screaming

Bookseller recommendation

“Fantastically feral. Uniquely unhinged. I adored this fresh new voice in queer fiction featuring a recently un-named corporate burnout in a tailspin on a Chicago to Arkansas road-trip from hell, told with all of the reliability that might expect from someone who freshly imploded their cushy marketing executive lifestyle by stealing their (maybe ex-) boyfriend’s car to find their conspiracy theorist father at the behest of their mother. Darkly comedic, ferociously and unapologetically weird, this was a roller coaster from start to finish, with nuggets of shocking, earth-shattering relatability at the oddest turns. ”

— Mikey • Avid Bookshop

Bookseller recommendation

“Told from the POV of a very flawed main character, this is definitely a book for a specific mood and person, and I was in the exact right mood to enjoy it. There's a lot of yelling and I did wish at times that the characters would just stop yelling at each other so something else could happen in the plot. The characters were not technically "likeable" but I still liked them, even if I didn't like all of their choices. There’s a lot of alcohol/drug abuse and other heavy topics, so read content warnings if needed. The narrator does a fabulous job with different voices for each character. The voices were not too over the top but they were also distinct enough that I could easily tell who was talking. The voices really added to forming the character as a whole in my mind, and were not distracting. I appreciated that the women characters also sounded different from each other and fit their characters; the narrator didn't have just one stereotypical "woman voice".”

— Gael • Page 2 Books