One Death, Nine Stories

This was like one of those campfire stories where someone starts the story off and then the next person continues and on to the next person and the next person and the next until you have a whole story. Nine different authors penned a different short story all somehow connected to one dead boy.

There was no conclusion, and very few details. If you want to know what happened to Kevin Nicholas, you won't find much beyond his cause of death and that kind of bothered me. I was hoping one of the stories was told from his point of view. Instead we're treated to only glimpses of a troubled, charming, dangerous boy through the eyes of the people who loved, idolized and feared him.

Despite the different authors the story did flow together quite seamlessly. There were one or two where I felt the writing was very different from the previous author, but then I would get lost in the story and it didn't matter so much anymore. This was a quick, interesting read. A good experiment.