Lucky Day

De: Chuck Tingle

Narrado por: Mara Wilson

“Mara Wilson's sober narration style and consistent pacing create an amusing juxtaposition with the unlucky events that unfold.” — AudioFile

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death

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, eight 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 impossibly—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.

"Wilson narrates with emotional depth, conveying all of Rose's intelligence, inquisitiveness, and fear as she's hunted by otherworldly beings." —AudioFile on Camp Damascus

Also by Chuck Tingle:
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

Reseñas de la Crítica

Praise for Lucky Day:

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights. In Tingle's hands, the slow trudge toward mortality regains its sense of marvel. We are all lucky for the statistically infinitesimal chance to be alive while Chuck Tingle is writing books.”
—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death

“Sparkles and shines as bright as the Las Vegas strip! Lucky Day fearlessly explores existence, absurdity, and love as only Chuck Tingle can do it. It will shock, thrill, and unlock new fears never even dreamt of. This is Tingle at his strangest and bloodiest.”
—CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of American Rapture

“A transcendent bisexual fantasia. Prepare to be astonished, unnerved, and ultimately, delighted. Lucky Day is groundbreaking, surrealist horror like you’ve never seen before.”
—Liz Kerin, author of Night's Edge

"Tingle wows with an absurdist existential horror novel that is as funny as it is unexpectedly devastating, complex, and challenging...Combining irreverent moments of surreality with an earnest message about finding hope even in the face of brutality, this is Tingle’s best yet."
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Tingle’s latest is an absurd romp, but underneath the off-the-wall mayhem lies his most sophisticated work to date.”
—Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

Praise for Chuck Tingle:

"This book is Tingle’s declaration: Love is real, and so are monsters."
—Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times Book Review, on Bury Your Gays

"Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love.”
―T. Kingfisher, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Tingle cements his place in horror with this gory romp.”
—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) on Bury Your Gays

"Chuck Tingle is absolutely the best guide through this level of Hell.”
—N.K. Jemisin, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Chuck Tingle continues to surprise and thrill.”
—John Scalzi, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary.”
—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of So Thirsty, on Bury Your Gays

"Even if you don’t think you like horror, you’re gonna devour this."
—Drew Broussard, LIT HUB, on Bury Your Gays

Who chose this narrator

I was completely thrown off by the narrator. Their tone, cadence and affectation were more appropriate for a romance or erotic tome. Not horror. Very unsettling

Unique Premise

The narrator sounds like AI, and it makes the main character only more unlikable than she already is. For as intelligent as she’s supposed to be, shes also willfully obtuse. None of what is happening in the book is normal. She also refers to “paranormal events”, and creatures making “eldritch” noises, yet when asked in the last quarter of the book whether or not she believes in alien life, she says no? Parts of the book involving the main characters reflections like that bothered me, and yet theres no denying its an entertaining premise with plenty of gore for physical horror enthusiasts.

Love to Tingle

I love Chuck, but I have to say, this is his weakest performance yet. The sorry is bleak throughout and it honestly makes you wonder "Are you okay, bud?" when you think about the author. It's well written, the story makes sense, but it's so grim and depressing that you really can't find the funny parts. The narrator (who is maybe the same one from Camp Damascus?) gave a really dry matter-of-fact delivery that honestly made her sound exactly like the same person from that audio book, rather than a new unique character in this one. Hyper-intelligent lesbian savant that is the only one that can see the truth and solve everyone's problems to destroy the big bad. That's great, but you've done it before, Chuck. Give us someone new and give us someone with emotion in their voice to narrate. This woman was so boring, but also, so was her character.

Overall, I love Chuck and his writing. I love how he portrays queer characters and queer narratives, but this was a slog compared to Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays. I won't recommend this one to new fans of his.

chuck tingle does it again

another smart horror novel from everyone's favorite erotica author. delightfully absurd and terrifyingly real. fully encompasses one of his core beliefs: it is a miracle to be alive, and alive with each other

Not my cup of tea.

I liked the starting and the ending, but in between it struggled to keep my attention. The antagonist was a bit cartoonish.