They soon find themselves involved with local gypsies, small town politics and the town's unofficial leader who's not going to give in without a fight.

While Ruben is talking to a local girl, he inquires where his sister's body was found. The girl leads him down an old path to where the body was located by a forestry worker the day after her murder. As they travel, she explains that in Gaelic the name translates to the Road of the Dead because funeral parties would carry the dead down the path. On another site, the review (Alexis Burling) praised the book as 'an exhilarating ride that teens won't soon forget.' She also wrote that the novel 'barrels its way towards another Kevin Brooks signature explosive climax, leaving nothing and no one untouched when the dust finally settles.'Ĭriticism on writes that The Road of the Dead finishes up too quickly, pointing out that 'the question of how Cole comes upon a key piece of evidence is brushed away with Ruben's comment, 'Does it matter?' Readers have sat through a lot of brutality (albeit strikingly written brutality) to get that information, so the answer is, well, yeah, it does.' reviewers on the site have praised the book as 'crisp and natural, and often funny and touching at once.' Another reviewer described the book as a 'heart-pounding, deeply emotional story with strong characters.' 'The Road of the Dead' currently (March 2007) has a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 on. Other readers and commenters have noted that the book contains 'an overwhelming presence of seriously graphic violence throughout that certainly may not sit well with some parents' (From ).

The road of the dead by kevin brooks