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Driver’s Ed: The only life and death course in school.
With that tagline, I was expecting the kids to crash and accidentally kill someone. Had I looked at the cover, I would have realized how they actually actually kill someone, which is by stealing street signs as a lark… including a stop sign on a dark road. Oops.
Like Flight 116 is Down! this book leans into its premise and is better than it needed to be. Much of it reads like a high school-set noir, in which a careless action causes horrifically spiraling consequences, while the guilty party writhes and sweats inwardly as the investigation heats up around them.
It’s also more emotionally affecting than I expected, with vivid supporting characters who all have their own motivations and agendas--the bored driver's ed teacher who doesn't bother to learn his students' names, the politician father, the anguished husband of the woman who was killed, the student who is terrified of driving and so misses out on the whole thing. In particular, the heroine’s relationship with her younger brother is unusual and rewarding.
Driver's Ed
With that tagline, I was expecting the kids to crash and accidentally kill someone. Had I looked at the cover, I would have realized how they actually actually kill someone, which is by stealing street signs as a lark… including a stop sign on a dark road. Oops.
Like Flight 116 is Down! this book leans into its premise and is better than it needed to be. Much of it reads like a high school-set noir, in which a careless action causes horrifically spiraling consequences, while the guilty party writhes and sweats inwardly as the investigation heats up around them.
It’s also more emotionally affecting than I expected, with vivid supporting characters who all have their own motivations and agendas--the bored driver's ed teacher who doesn't bother to learn his students' names, the politician father, the anguished husband of the woman who was killed, the student who is terrified of driving and so misses out on the whole thing. In particular, the heroine’s relationship with her younger brother is unusual and rewarding.
Driver's Ed
