Ride or Die

By: James Newman

Narrated by: Alyssa Greenvale

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Amelia Fletcher is a good girl. She’s a straight-A student, second chair in her middle-school chorus, and she never uses the Lord’s name in vain.

But a few days ago, she discovered that her dad has been cheating on her mom.

For the first time in her life, Amelia decides she would like to know what it feels like to be a bad girl. For just one night.

With the help of her BFFs, Cassie and Folline, she plans to teach Dad’s “other woman” a lesson. It's harmless fun, right? An evening of teenage mischief. When all is said and done, the homewrecker will go away and never come back. Only then can Amelia's family begin to repair what has been broken.

However, this was no ordinary affair. And the trio could never expect the horrors that await them inside the house on Callaghan Drive.

©2022 James Newman (P)2022 Mark Alan Miller

Critic reviews

"A warning tale for the adulterers, packed with nail-biting brutality and loads of teenage angst. Great fodder for those who like a little kink in their revenge." (Chad Lutzke, author of Stirring the Sheets and Wallflower)

A dark and disturbing tale from a great writer

"They are the sharks..."

I've been a James Newman fan for a long time and glad I finally got around to this one. A well written, entertaining and fast moving tale. The narrator did a great job of capturing the essence of the story.

"...and our fear is the blood in the water."

So much gone wrong

Three friends plan an a vandalism attack on a woman’s house. This woman is having an affair with one of the girls father. They want to scare the woman and make her disappear from his life.
You know something is going to go wrong, but how bad could it get? Do yourself a favor and never ask that question because Ride Or Die has the answer to just how bad it can get.
Great narration on the audiobook.

RIDE OR DIE

RIDE OR DIE by James Newman is about three teenage girls who are extremely close and decide they are going to teach someone a lesson. While the story then becomes very dark as expected, it goes in a very different direction than I anticipated which makes this story very exciting and entertaining. James Newman never disappoints and he certainly doesn’t disappoint with RIDE OR DIE, great story. The audiobook from Encyclopocalypse Publications is yet another top notch audiobook production.

Trashy festival of words

I agreed to audibly read and review Ride or Die after seeing an appeal in a GoodReads Group seeking volunteers.

The absolute best part of this book is the narrator albeit understanding she can only be as good as the material .

This begins with profanity right away from the teenage girls, literally the first or second sentence, and it only got worse. Between the girls and the two villains every swear word was used and genitalia of both male and female was referred to in trashy slang. The author attempted to write graphic sex scenes.

At best this is a D-level writing. The story is what I envision a teacher removing from early teen-aged boys attempting to be grown up. This repeatedly screams juvenile. The characters reactions to what is suppose to be horrific acts are eye-rolling, heavy sighing, and head shaking; those are my reactions.

This is quite frankly a mess of words that insults the science of creative reasonable person writing. The length and narrator made it bearable.