Blood Sugar, Daniel Kraus
Blood Sugar, Daniel Kraus
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Blood Sugar

Author: Daniel Kraus

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Kraus - co-author with Guillermo del Toro of THE SHAPE OF WATER (which as a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture) - comes a Halloween crime story that's like nothing you've ever heard before.

WHEN TRICK OR TREAT

BECOMES LIFE OR DEATH

At the end of Yellow Street, in a ruined junkyard of a house, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy and use the deadly treats to maim or kill dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers - an innocent himself, in his own streetwise way - carry out or defeat the plan?

Told principally from the child's point of view, in a voice as startling and unforgettable as A Clockwork Orange, Kraus' novel is at once frightening and emotional, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny. It'll make you rethink your concepts of family and loyalty and justice - and will leave you anxiously double-checking the wrappers on your Halloween candy for the rest of your days.

About The Author

DANIEL KRAUS is the producer and director of numerous feature films, most notably the documentary Work Series, and the author of several YA novels, including Rotters and Scowler, both of which won the Odyssey Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Catherine on April 23, 2022

**Many thanks to NetGalley, Penguin-Putnam, and Sascha Rothchild for an ARC of this book! Now available as of 4.19!** "It was a curious phrase. I could kill... One I had never used since I actually had killed before. I was a murderer, so for me it lost its hyperbolic quality...People were always excl......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on February 15, 2023

This is unique, capturing, interesting thriller that I couldn’t put it down! The character driven writing style, story building were refreshingly original and creative! I was so excited to learn about main character’s past to understand her present predicament! The authors who are too brilliant hav......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on April 23, 2022

I liked it! This is the story of Ruby, who might or might not have had a hand in a number of deaths throughout her life. But she's not a serial killer--she loves animals, and she's not a sociopath--she loves her family and friends. However there are some unexplained deaths that have occurred around......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 31, 2022

Review/Vlog: [URL not allowed] 'Diabetes Noir' is not only my life's genre but also my new favorite trope. I need MORE. Not only did Rothchild do what so few have attempted by representing a chronic illness but she did it with compassion and experience. I have type 1 diabetes and I can tel......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on January 05, 2023

I chose this novel based upon a NYT review of delightful murder mysteries of 2022. The jacket cover states that the protagonist, Ruby, is the most likable murderess you will ever meet. That’s all I needed to choose “Blood Sugar” by Sascha Rothchild. What I enjoyed is Rothchild’s characterization of o......more